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adulescent

adulescent is the alternative form of adultescent.

Meaning of adultescent

Noun

adultescent (plural adultescents)

  1. An adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
    • 1996, Precision Marketing 17 June 21/4 Consider the importance of adultescents to the music biz—they make up over a third of the audience at gigs, but have more cash to spend than teenagers.

Forms of adulescent

pluraladulescents

Questions about adulescent

What is adulescent the alternative form of?
Adulescent is the alternative form of adultescent.

Words near adulescent in the dictionary

  1. adulatorious
  2. adulators
  3. adulatory
  4. adulatress
  5. adulatresses
  6. adulescent
  7. adulescents
  8. Adullam
  9. Adullamite
  10. Adullamites
  11. adult

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