transcription, транскрипция: [ ædəles(ə)nt ]
( adolescents)
Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
It is important that an adolescent boy should have an adult in whom he can confide...
= teenage
ADJ : usu ADJ n
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An adolescent is an adolescent boy or girl.
Young adolescents are happiest with small groups of close friends.
= teenager
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