adult
∞
1.0
- noun
- /əˈdʌlt/
:
adulto
- How many teeth does an adult human usually have?
- older adults
- young adult
- become an adult
OK, you're saying that adults watch him by choice.
- OK, you're saying that adults watch him by choice.
- But this is doing so as an adult, not as a child.
- Parents, teachers, coaches, adults of all sorts affect children.
- Her parents taught her that adults were angels, literally.
- The question is what kind of adults they will grow into.
- So that's how I can be an adult and do adult voices.
- You know, we need to give children and adults more face to FaceTime.
- I think there's an epidemic of adults not having friends.
- I know that children don't like when adults do things on TikTok.
- All of that shows up as adults, right?
Examples
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But this is doing so as an adult, not as a child.
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Many adults prefer to spend their weekends relaxing rather than working.
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We're not teaching children, we're not teaching adults how to do that.
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We can either do this like adults, or you can make it bad for the both of us.
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But we can still have adult conversations.
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Indeed, only 20% of the general adult population of South Africa knows their HIV status.
Academic text (2011) -
What is the life expectancy for a an adult male American?
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He is an adult male.
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In addition to being accepted, the older adults should have a degree of self-acceptance.
Academic text (2008) -
I think there's an epidemic of adults not having friends.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who is an adult and not a child
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
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3.2
A long-term condition in adults where the body cannot use blood sugar and is often treated with diet or pills
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7.4
A serious illness in which the lungs are damaged and fill with fluid so oxygen cannot reach the blood
- Archaic
A long-term condition in adults that makes the body unable to use sugar well and usually needs diet and pills
How Old
Surface Forms
Etymology
Adult comes from the old Latin word adultus, which means 'grown', from the verb adolescere 'to grow up'. So an adult is a person who is fully grown and no longer a child.