Definición de "adult"
Formas de la palabra: plural adults
1. sustantivo contable
An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally
responsible for their actions.
Sinónimos: grown-up, mature person, person of mature age, grown or grown-up person Más sinónimos de adult
4. adjetivo [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you say that someone is adult about something, you think that they act in a mature, intelligent way, especially when faced with a difficult situation.
[approval]
5. adjetivo
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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
adult in British English
adjetivo
verbo
7. (intransitive) informal
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Formas derivadas
adulthood (ˈadulthood) sustantivo
Origen de la palabra adult
C16: from Latin adultus, from adolēscere to grow up, from alēscere to grow, from alēre to feed, nourish
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
adult in American English
adjetivo
2.
of or for adult persons
an adult novel
sustantivo
4.
a man or woman who is fully grown up; mature person
5.
an animal or plant that is fully developed
SIMILAR WORDS: ripe
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Formas derivadas
adulthood (aˈdulthood)
sustantivo
adultness (aˈdultness)
sustantivo
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
adult in American English
(əˈdʌlt, ˈædʌlt)
adjetivo
2.
of, pertaining to, or befitting adults
sustantivo
4.
a person who is fully grown or developed or of age
5.
a full-grown animal or plant
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Formas derivadas
adulthood sustantivo
adultlike
adjetivo
adultly
adverbio
adultness
sustantivo
Origen de la palabra adult
[1525–35; 1925–30 for def. 3; ‹ L adultus grown (ptp. of adolēre to make grow), equiv. to ad- ad- + ul- (identical with base al- in aliment, ol- in prolific) + -tus ptp. suffix]Ejemplos de frases que contienen "adult"
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Inglés británico: adult
/ˈædʌlt; əˈdʌlt/ NOUN
An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.
Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.
- Inglés americano: adult /əˈdʌlt/
- Árabe: بَالِغ mature
- Portugués brasileño: adulto
- Chino: 成年人
- Croata: odrasla osoba
- Checo: dospělý muž
- Danés: voksen
- Holandés: volwassene
- Español europeo: adulto
- Finlandés: aikuinen
- Francés: adulte
- Alemán: Erwachsener
- Griego: ενήλικος
- Italiano: adulto
- Japonés: 大人
- Coreano: 성인
- Noruego: voksen
- Polaco: dorosły
- Portugués: adulto
- Rumano: adult
- Ruso: взрослый
- Español: adulto
- Sueco: vuxen
- Tailandés: ผู้ใหญ่
- Turco: yetişkin
- Ucraniano: дорослий
- Vietnamita: người trưởng thành
Inglés británico: adult
ADJECTIVE /əˈdʌlt; ˈædʌlt/
Adult means relating to the time when you are an adult, or typical of adult people.
I've lived most of my adult life in this town.
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