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I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
Carmen Ejogo

Meaning of "precocious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRECOCIOUS

From Latin praecox early maturing, from prae early + coquere to ripen.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PRECOCIOUS

precocious  [prɪˈkəʊʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRECOCIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Precocious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRECOCIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

precocious

Precocial

In biology, the term precocial refers to species in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. The opposite developmental strategy is called "altricial" where the young are born or hatched helpless. Extremely precocial species may be called "superprecocial". These three categories form a continuum, without distinct gaps between them. Precocial species are normally nidifugous, meaning that they leave the nest shortly after birth or hatching. The span between precocial and altricial species is particularly broad in birds. Precocial birds are born with their eyes open. They are covered with downy feathers that soon grow to adult feathers after hatching. Birds of this kind can also swim and run much sooner after their birth than other birds, such as songbirds. Very precocial birds can be ready to leave the nest in a short period of time following hatching. Many precocial chicks are not independent in thermoregulation, and they depend on the attending parent to brood them with body heat for a short period of time. Precocial birds find their own food, sometimes with help or instruction from the parents.

Definition of precocious in the English dictionary

The definition of precocious in the dictionary is ahead in development, such as the mental development of a child. Other definition of precocious is flowering or ripening early.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRECOCIOUS


ambitious
æmˈbɪʃəs
anxious
ˈæŋkʃəs
atrocious
əˈtrəʊʃəs
braggadocious
ˌbræɡəˈdəʊʃəs
cautious
ˈkɔːʃəs
conscious
ˈkɒnʃəs
delicious
dɪˈlɪʃəs
ferocious
fəˈrəʊʃəs
infectious
ɪnˈfɛkʃəs
luscious
ˈlʌʃəs
malicious
məˈlɪʃəs
manufactures
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəs
Mauritius
məˈrɪʃəs
precious
ˈprɛʃəs
pretentious
prɪˈtɛnʃəs
spacious
ˈspeɪʃəs
specious
ˈspiːʃəs
stotious
ˈstəʊʃəs
suspicious
səˈspɪʃəs
vicious
ˈvɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRECOCIOUS

precocial
precociously
precociousness
precocity
precode
precognisant
precognise
precognition
precognitive
precognizant
precognize
precognosce
precoital
precollege
precollegiate
precolonial
precombustion
precommitment
precompetitive
precompose

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRECOCIOUS

audacious
auspicious
bodacious
bootylicious
capricious
collective unconscious
efficacious
gracious
hellacious
judicious
officious
pernicious
previous
pugnacious
safety-conscious
salacious
self-conscious
subconscious
tenacious
vivacious
voracious

Synonyms and antonyms of precocious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRECOCIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «precocious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of precocious

Translation of «precocious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRECOCIOUS

Find out the translation of precocious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of precocious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «precocious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

早熟的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

precoz
570 millions of speakers

English

precocious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असामयिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مبكر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

скороспелый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

precoce
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইঁচড়ে পাকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

précoce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

cepat matang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

frühreif
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ませた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조숙한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Precocious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có hoa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படுசுட்டியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अकार्यक्षम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

erken gelişmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

precoce
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przedwczesne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скоростиглий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

precoce
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρώιμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vir altyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

brådmogen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

veslevoksen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of precocious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRECOCIOUS»

The term «precocious» is regularly used and occupies the 56.105 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRECOCIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about precocious

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10 QUOTES WITH «PRECOCIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word precocious.
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Donna Air
When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
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Ian Anderson
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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Julie Burchill
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
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Rene Cassin
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
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Carmen Ejogo
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
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Pippa Evans
I was a precocious child.
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Dexter Fletcher
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.
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Ari Graynor
I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
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Ann Hood
I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.
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Michael Ironside
I basically was a precocious little kid.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRECOCIOUS»

Discover the use of precocious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to precocious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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When Puberty is Precocious: Scientific and Clinical Aspects
This book focuses on precocious puberty, providing a unique continuum of expertise looking at puberty from anthropologic, epidemiologic, clinical, and molecular perspectives.
Ora H. Pescovitz, Emily C. Walvoord, 2007
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Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical ...
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women.
Gaylyn Studlar, 2013
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Precocious Children and Childish Adults: Age Inversion in ...
Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children’s literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field.
Claudia Nelson, 2012
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Manual of Endocrinology and Metabolism
GENERAL PRINCIPLES Although precocious puberty has traditionally been defined as the early onset of pubertal changes (based on chronologic age), it is critical that pubertal progression and/or a pubertal hypothalamic-pituitary- gonadal ...
Norman Lavin, 2009
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Gnrh Analogues in Cancer and Human Reproduction: Precocious ...
'(These books) can be highly recommended; it should in fact be considered a serious lack if they are not present to complete the references on GnRH analogues.' Annals of Oncology 2 (7) 1991
B. H. Vickery, Bruno Lunenfeld, 1991
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Precocious and Prodigious Children and Their Environment in ...
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine," course: Hauptseminar "20th Century American Short Stories," 19 entries in the bibliography, language: ...
Alexandra Berlina, 2007
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Pediatric Endocrinology: Mechanisms, Manifestations, and ...
PRECOCIOUS. PUBERTY. PETER A. LEE JAMES R. KERRIGAN i i r Tanner Tanner Tanner stage 1 stage 2. NORMAL PUBERTY AND GROWTH Puberty is a consequence of increased gonadotropin and sex steroid secretion, involving both ...
Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Erica A. Eugster, 2004
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State Building and Late Development
I he material in this chapter covers the period of precocious Keynesianism — 195o to 198o in Turkey and 1963 to 198o in Syria. Chapter 9 discusses the post- 198o period, when Syria and Turkey experimented with new political-economic ...
David Waldner, 1999
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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary32: Dorland's ...
precocious pseudopuberty, under pseudopuberty. Called also complete, gonadotropin-dependent, or true precocious p. complete precocious p. central precocious p. constitutional precocious p. precocious puberty occurring in otherwise ...
Dorland, 2011
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Evidence-based Endocrinology
PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY Definition Precocious puberty is defined as the premature development of secondary sex characteristics. In girls, this generally constitutes breast budding (thelarche) or development of pubic hair (pubarche) before ...
Pauline M. Camacho, Hossein Gharib, Glen W. Sizemore, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRECOCIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term precocious is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jaden Smith grabs lunch at Café Gratitude on break from filming The …
The precocious Malibu-born teen was recently photographed by Sebastian Faena for Carine Roitfeld's first edition of CR Men's Book, which hits ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Los Angeles Lakers Have Pieces in Place to Secure Their Next …
At this point, the Purple and Gold are counting on the precocious but unproven trio of D'Angelo Russell, Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson to ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
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Tuesday's best TV
The five remaining child geniuses try to out-precocious each other; Whistlestop discipline at the hands of the Three-Day Nanny; Not Safe For ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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China's Strength Is Obvious, Its Future Role Is Not
On the other hand, the world is anxious about the nature of the precocious superpower driving change. That China will be powerful without ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Children are Flexible Social Learners, Study Finds
... of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners. “There's nothing children are more interested in than other people,” said ... «University of Texas at Austin News, Jul 15»
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Prince George Is Already Lying About His Age
As mom Kate Middleton revealed Sunday at the Ben Ainslee Racing headquarters in England, the precocious little royal has been telling ... «GoodHousekeeping.com, Jul 15»
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Friendship Through the Whirlwind Years of Motherhood
With one ever-so-industrious husband and three little ladies (one dreamer, one future engineer and one precocious rebel) I'm pretty much ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr – an adult story in a …
We first meet her alter ego, Anna, as a precocious nine-year-old whose only problem appears to be negotiating the consequences of having a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Badly Drawn Boy, Barbican, review: 'a fantastic rebirth'
... more in control of his sprawling masterpiece, with the contrast in contours and textures intensified to reveal what a precocious talent he was. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Jazz Week at Wayne: Young musicians hone their chops
That is apparent at times, when a precocious question or remark is made. One of the older musicians asked if the students knew what jazz ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»

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