# adult
## English
### Etymology

From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /əˈdʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
* (Canada) IPA: [ˈadʌɫt], [əˈdʌɫt]
** (nonstandard) IPA: [ˈadʊɫt], [ˈad(ə)ɫt], [aˈdʌɫt], [əˈdʊɫt]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Canada); /ˈæd.əlt/:(file)
* Audio (Canada); /əˈdʌlt/:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌlt

### Noun

adult (plural adults)
* A fully grown human or other animal.
** 1840, Georges Cuvier, Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, J.O. Westwood, “The fourth order of reptiles—The batrachians”, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom‎, page 286:The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form
* A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

#### Synonyms

* (fully grown human or other animal): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adult

#### Translations
### Adjective

adult (comparative more adult, superlative most adult)
* Fully grown.
    an adult human, animal, or plant
** 1837, Michael Donovan, Domestic Economy: Human Food, Animal and Vegetable‎, page 86:The paws of the adult brown bear, and also their hams, especially when smoked, are considered a great delicacy.
* Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
    adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary
** 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.
** Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
    adult situations; adult discussions
** (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
    an adult drink; an adult root beer float
** (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
    an adult cookie; adult gummy worms
** Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic.
    an adult movie
    This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.
** Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
    adult language; an adult cartoon

#### Synonyms

* (fully grown): big, fully grown, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
* (intended for adults): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adultlike or Thesaurus:for adults
* (containing explicit sexual material): pornographic, X-rated, XXX, XXXX; see also Thesaurus:pornographic
* (vulgar): blue, indecent, obscene, salacious; see also Thesaurus:obscene

#### Derived terms

* adult actress
* adult album alternative
* adult alternative
* adult baby
* adult beverage
* adult bookstore
* adultcentrism
* adult contemporary
* adult content
* adult education
* adultescent
* adult film
* adulticide
* adultification
* adultify
* adultish
* adultism
* adultivity
* adultization
* adultize
* adult learner
* adultlike
* adultly
* adult movie
* adultness
* adultocentric
* adultoid
* adult-onset diabetes
* adultophile
* adult-oriented rock
* adult protection
* adult relations
* adult respiratory distress syndrome
* adultship
* adult shop
* adultspeak
* adult star
* adult survivor
* adult third culture kid
* adultwear
* adulty
* appropriate adult
* consenting adult
* Disney adult
* emerging adult
* hyperadult
* kidult
* new adult
* nonadult
* older adult
* preadult
* pseudoadult
* subadult
* unadult
* young adult

#### Related terms

* adolescent
* adulthood

#### Translations
### Verb

adult (third-person singular simple present adults, present participle adulting, simple past and past participle adulted)
* (intransitive, slang) To behave like an adult.
    Adulting is hard!
* (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
** 1974, Occasional Papers, numbers 42-46, Syracuse University, page 5:Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]
** 2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art, →ISBN, page 84:The process of adulting children […] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media […] into children’s imagination.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:adult.

### Further reading

* “adult”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adult”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* talud

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adultus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əˈðul]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əˈðult]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈðult]

### Adjective

adult (feminine adulta, masculine plural adults, feminine plural adultes)
* adult (fully grown)

#### Derived terms

* adultesa

### Noun

adult m (plural adults, feminine adulta)
* adult (fully grown person)

#### Further reading

* “adult” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

adult (strong nominative masculine singular adulter, not comparable)
* (medicine) adult

#### Declension
### See also

* erwachsen
* Erwachsener, Erwachsene

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈdult/

### Adjective

adult m or n (feminine singular adultă, masculine plural adulți, feminine and neuter plural adulte)
* adult

#### Declension
### Noun

adult m (plural adulți, feminine equivalent adultă)
* adult