Definition of Adult

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Definition of Adult
	Adult Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. Related Definitions: Adult, Age, An, And, Animal, Ape, Arrived, As, At, Full, Grown, Having, Has, Matured, Maturity, One, Or, Person, Plant, Reached, Size, Strength, To, Who

Adult Quotations

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
Mike Ditka

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead

Adult Translations

adult in Afrikaans is volwasse
adult in Dutch is volwassene, adult
adult in French is adulte
adult in German is erwachsen, Erwachsener, erwachsen
adult in Italian is adulto
adult in Latin is adultus (adj.)
adult in Norwegian is voksen
adult in Portuguese is adulto
adult in Spanish is adulto
adult in Swedish is vuxen, fullvuxen

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