adult
adult is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
- 2.A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. Note: In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- adolescent
- adultness
- age
- assume
- attain
- chicken
- come
- cut
- discretion
- estate
- flower
- full
- grown
- have
- life
- majority
- man
- manhood
- manly
- marriageable
- matronly
- mature
- maturity
- meridian
- middle-aged
- mild
- nubile
- out
- prime
- pubescence
- pubescent
- ripe
- sown
- spring
- teens
- the
- toga
- virile
- virility
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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