| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward stage, boyhood, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide, springtime, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | season following winter |
Synonyms: |
blackberry winter, budding, budtime, flowering, prime, seedtime, springtide, springtime, vernal equinox, vernal season |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenility, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Youth. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom., cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage., prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
-adjectives
young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.
-phrases
"youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; youth . . . the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
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Antonyms: |
age |
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| Concept: | Greenness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; complementary colors |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
green; blue and yellow; vert., emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine; absinthe, crème de menthe., [Pigments] terre verte, verditer, verdine., greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure.
-adjectives
green, verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous., emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green., greenish; virent, virescent.
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