adolescence

Roget-categorie 131

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#131. Adolescence

zelfstandig naamwoord

adolescence, pubescence, majority — adultism — adultness etc. adj. — manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age — flower of age — prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life.
man etc. 373 — woman etc. 374 — adult, no chicken.

werkwoord

come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion — attain majority, assume the toga virilis [Lat.] — have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

adolescent, pubescent, of age — of full age, of ripe age — out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult — womanly, matronly — marriageable, nubile.
3. Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose

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