Adult

Etymology
From,  , perfect passive participle of. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A fully grown human or animal.
 * 2) A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
 * 1) A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:adult

Translations

 * Arabic: بَالِغ, رَاشِد
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: adultu, adulta
 * Belarusian: даро́слы, даро́слая
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chichewa: mkulu
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 大人
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, dospělá
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: adolto, viradolto, adoltino , plenkreskulo, virplenkreskulo , plenkreskulino
 * Estonian: täiskasvanu, täisealine
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: adulto, adulta
 * Georgian: ზრდასრული, სრულწლოვანი, მოწიფული, მოზრდილი, ზრდადამთავრებული, სრულასაკოვანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole: granmoun
 * Hebrew: מבוגר, מבוגרת
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:, ,
 * Interlingue: adulte
 * Irish: duine fásta, duine aosach,, aosach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Lao: ຜູ້ໃຫ່ຍ
 * Latin:, adulta
 * Latvian: pieaugušais
 * Lithuanian: suaugęs, suaugusi
 * Macedonian: возрасен, возрасна
 * Maori: pakeke, paheke, kātua , pāhake
 * Mirandese: adulto, adulta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Novial: adulte
 * Okinawan: 大人
 * Oriya:
 * Persian: بزرگسال
 * Polish:, dorosła
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀дра̄стао, пу̏нолетан, пу̏нољетан
 * Roman:, pȕnoleta,
 * Sinhalese: වැඩිහිටියා
 * Slovak:, dospelá
 * Slovene: odrasel, odrasla
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: mtu mzima
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: maygulang, nasagulang, adulto
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: orotstse
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: доро́слий, доро́сла
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, hidaülan , jidaülan
 * Welsh:
 * Westrobothnian: fult falk

Adjective

 * 1) Fully grown.
 * an adult human, animal, or plant
 * 1) Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
 * adult clothes
 * 1) * 1973, Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn, Children and the urban environment (page 21)
 * In May 1967 the WGBH Education Division submitted an initial proposal to HUD for a series of four adult television documentaries on conservation in an urban environment.
 * 1) Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.
 * an adult movie
 * This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.
 * 1) Vulgar or profane.
 * 1) Vulgar or profane.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
 * ; see also Thesaurus:adultlike or Thesaurus:for adults
 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:pornographic
 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:obscene

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: adultu
 * Belarusian: даро́слы
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ˀypé·la-
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: plenkreska, adolta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: adulto
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἁδρός, τέλειος
 * Hindi:
 * Interlingue: adult
 * Irish: fásta, aosach, aosaithe


 * Italian: ,
 * Kazakh: кәмелеттік
 * Korean: 다 자란
 * Latin: pubēs, puber,
 * Latvian: pieaudzis
 * Mirandese: adulto, adulta
 * Novial: adulti
 * Polish:, dorosła
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: odrasel
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: adulto
 * Tocharian B: śrāy
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: доро́слий
 * Vietnamese: (長成)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: mewn oed


 * Bulgarian: за възрастни
 * Finnish: aikuis-, aikuisille suunnattu
 * Interlingue: adult
 * Irish: aosach, d'aosaigh
 * Italian: per adulti
 * Korean:


 * Polish: dla dorosłych
 * Russian: для взро́слых
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: za odrasle
 * Swedish: vuxen-
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: (i) oedolion

Verb

 * 1)  To (cause to) be or become an adult.
 * 2) * 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,
 * 1)  To behave like an adult.
 * 1)  To behave like an adult.
 * 1)  To behave like an adult.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  fully grown

Noun

 * 1)  fully grown person

Adjective

 * 1)  adult

Etymology
From,. See above.

Adjective

 * 1) adult

Noun

 * 1) adult