- a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions synonym grown-up2
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- I simply can't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets.
- Why can't you two act like civilized adults?
- The obesity rate among adults has actually increased.
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa1- The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.
- This book will definitely appeal to teenagers and young adults.
- What consenting adults do in private is their own business.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- young
- single
- consenting
- …
- education
- literacy
- population
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- a fully grown animal
- The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed.
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.
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