preadolescence en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English adolescence English preadolescence From pre- + adolescence.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about nine and eleven for girls, and ten and twelve for boys.
Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.
2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 270:
Translations (6)
de Präadoleszenz (the period between childhood and adolescence) · ga réamhógántacht (the period between childhood and adolescence) · it preadolescenza (the period between childhood and adolescence) · pt pré-adolescência (the period between childhood and adolescence) · eo antaŭadoleskanteco (the period between childhood and adolescence) · fr préadolescence (the period between childhood and adolescence)