| Meaning | The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood. |
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| Part of | youth | The time of life between childhood and maturity |
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| Parts | genital stage, genital phase | (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence |
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| puberty, pubescence | The time of life when sex glands become functional |
| Broader | time of life | A period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state |
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| Spanish | adolescencia |
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| Catalan | adolescència |
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| Adjectives | adolescent | relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent |
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| adolescent | in the state of development between puberty and maturity |
| adolescent | being of the age 13 through 19 |
| Verbs | adolesce | become adolescent |
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