adolescents
- 1Plural of adolescent.
Many adolescents struggle with the pressure to fit in among their peers.
The clinic offers counseling specifically designed for adolescents and their families.
Note
A regular plural with no change to the stem: the -s simply joins the noun. Because adolescent is also an adjective (adolescent behavior, an adolescent phase), the -s is a useful signal. English adjectives never take it, so wherever the form appears it names people, not a quality. The adjective stays bare even before a plural noun: adolescent patients, never adolescents patients.
adolescents is a form of adolescent
adolescent, noun: A person in the stage of adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but has not yet become an adult. Full entry
- Forms
- adolescentadolescents plural
- Spelling
- adolescent → adolescents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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