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adolescencia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adolescence noun The stage of life between childhood and adulthood, roughly spanning the teenage years.
  • time noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.
  • youth noun The period of life between childhood and adulthood.

Senses

adolescencia is used for these senses in English:

  • adolescence The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
  • time (uncountable, with, possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
  • youth (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

time — full definition

  1. noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.
  2. verb To measure how long something takes, or to choose the moment it happens.
  3. intj A call announcing that a pause or break is over, or that closing time has arrived.

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