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発音

• enPR: ăd'əlĕsʹənt, IPA: /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/
• (Indic) IPA: /əˈɖoləsəɳʈ/

形容詞

adolescent (comparative more adolescent, superlative most adolescent)

1. Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
   • 1785, William Cowper, Tirocinium:

     Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

   • 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:

     Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.

派生語

関連する語

• adolescence
• adult

名詞

adolescent (plural adolescents)

1. A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
   • 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:

     Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

   • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:

     ‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’

Further reading

• “adolescent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “adolescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adolescent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• WHO Guidelines on the Pharmacological Treatment of Persisting Pain in Children with Medical Illnesses, (2012) , World Health Organization