1 (of a person) mentally and physically an adult:
What do you want to be when you're grown-up? * She has a grown-up son.
2 suitable for or typical of an adult:
The child was clearly puzzled at being addressed in such a grown-up way.
Part of speech: noun
(used especially by and to children) an adult person:
If you're good you can eat with the grown-ups.
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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 grown-up is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grown-up a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grown-up is tagged as adjective.
Does grown-up appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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