1 a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions:
Children must be accompanied by an adult. * Why can't you two act like civilized adults?
2 a fully grown animal:
The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed.
Part of speech: adjective
1 fully grown or developed:
preparing young people for adult life * the adult population * adult monkeys
2 behaving in an intelligent and responsible way; typical of what is expected of an adult:
When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.
3 [onlybeforenoun] intended for adults only, because it is about sex or contains violence:
an adult movie
seealsoADULTHOOD
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for adult is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is adult a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, adult is tagged as noun.
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