English

Noun

adult ‎(plural adults)

1. A fully grown human or animal.
2. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.

Derived terms

• adultly
• adultness

Translations

Adjective

adult ‎(comparative more adult, superlative most adult)

1. Fully grown.

   an adult human, animal, or plant

2. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.

   adult clothes

3. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.

   adult content

   an adult movie

Synonyms

• (fully grown): big, fully grown, grown up
• (unsuitable for children): blue, dirty, lewd, obscene, pornographic, X-rated, XXX, XXXX

Related terms

• adolescent
• adulthood

Translations

Verb

adult ‎(third-person singular simple present adults, present participle adulting, simple past and past participle adulted)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
   • 1974, Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:

     Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]

   • 2013, Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
   • 2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art (ISBN 364390374X), page 84:

     The process of adulting children, […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:adult.

Catalan

Noun

adult m ‎(plural adults)

1. adult

Romanian

Etymology

From French adulte, Latin adultus. See above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdult/

Adjective

adult m, n ‎(feminine singular adultă, masculine plural adulți, feminine and neuter plural adulte)

1. adult

Declension

Noun

adult m ‎(plural adulți, feminine equivalent adultă)

1. adult

Declension