adolescence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
  2. noun in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

WordNet

Ad`o*les"cence noun
Etymology
Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.
Definitions
  1. The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Webster 1913