adult
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adult /ˈadʌlt, əˈdʌlt/
▶noun a person who is fully grown and developed.
■ Law a person who has reached the age of majority.
▶adjective fully grown and developed.■ of, for, or characteristic of adults.
– derivatives
adulthood noun,
adultly adverb.
adulthood noun,
adultly adverb.
'adult' also found in these Oxford entries:
ad litem
- adolescent
- adultescent
- age
- Akela
- alto
- amphibian
- antler
- AOR
- aunt
- baptist
- baritone
- barrelfish
- bass
- bring
- brown owl
- childlike
- community charge
- consenting adult
- contour feather
- countertenor
- down
- eclose
- fruit fly
- full-mouthed
- golden eagle
- grown-up
- Guider
- haggard
- hart
- horse
- imaginal
- imago
- infantilism
- in loco parentis
- Japanese beetle
- liver fluke
- majority
- man
- mature
- mature student
- Mennonite
- metamorphosis
- neoteny
- notochord
- overgrown
- perfect
- poll tax
- puberty
