noun
1. the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood (Freq. 3)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑adolescent, ↑adolesce
• Hypernyms: ↑time of life
• Part Holonyms: ↑youth
• Part Meronyms: ↑genital stage, ↑genital phase, ↑puberty, ↑pubescence
2. in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
• Derivationally related forms: ↑adolescent, ↑adolesce
• Hypernyms: ↑immaturity, ↑immatureness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.