English to English
noun
- the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
source: WordNet 3.0
- in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913