adult
US: /ˈædəɫt/, /əˈdəɫt/
UK: /ˈædʌlt/
UK: /ˈædʌlt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
adult /'ædʌlt/
- danh từ
- người lớn, người đã trưởng thành
- người lớn, người đã trưởng thành
- tính từ
- trưởng thành
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adjective
+ noun
1 a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions: Children must be accompanied by an adult. + Why can't you two act like civilized adults?
2 a fully grown animal: The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed.
+ adjective
1 fully grown or developed: preparing young people for adult life + the adult population + adult monkeys
2 behaving in an intelligent and responsible way; typical of what is expected of an adult: When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.
3 [only before noun] intended for adults only, because it is about sex or contains violence: an adult movie
See also -
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 mature, grown (up), full-grown, matured, of age:
Now that you are adult, you come into a large inheritance.
n.
2 grown-up:
Tiger cubs are cute, but the adults are very dangerous.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
young
This book will definitely appeal to teenagers and young adults.
| single
The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.
| consenting
What consenting adults do in private is their own business.
| responsible
I simply can't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets.
ADULT + NOUN
life
She spent her entire adult life caring for others.
| education, literacy | population
Concise English dictionary
adults'ædʌlt
noun
+a fully developed person from maturity onward
+any mature animal
adj.
+(of animals) fully developed
