adolescence

Roget category 131

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

#131. Adolescence

noun

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.

verb

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.

adjective

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

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

debug info: 0.0018