adult

[A*dultĀ·]

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

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Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

Noun
any mature animal

Noun
a fully developed person from maturity onward

Adjective S.
(of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"


a.
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

n.
A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.


Adult

A*dult" , a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old.] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

Adult

A*dult", n. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. &hand; In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve.

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

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Usage Examples

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

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