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An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth. In human context, the term adult has meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a "minor", a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible. They may also be regarded as a "major". The typical age of attaining legal adulthood is 18, although definition may vary by legal rights, country, and psychological development. Human adulthood encompasses psychological adult development. Definitions of adulthood are often inconsistent and contradictory; a person may be biologically an adult, and have adult behavior, but still be treated as a child if they are under the legal age of majority. Conversely, one may legally be an adult but possess none of the maturity and responsibility that may define an adult character. In different cultures there are events that relate passing from being a child to becoming an adult or coming of age. This often encompasses the passing a series of tests to demonstrate that a person is prepared for adulthood, or reaching a specified age, sometimes in conjunction with demonstrating preparation. Most modern societies determine legal adulthood based on reaching a legally specified age without requiring a demonstration of physical maturity or preparation for adulthood.
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adultsnoun
Plural noun of the word adult.
The adults were asked to accompany the children on the largest theme park rides.
Submitted by MaryC on May 3, 2016
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Rank popularity for the word 'adults' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3080
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Rank popularity for the word 'adults' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2955
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of adults in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of adults in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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Comedy writers. That was the audience, luckily, a lot of other people, both kids and adults, liked the same jokes we liked.
I'm asking people to stop the nonsense right now - these are adults jumping out windows. It's a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself.
To me, that's one strategy, but the other issues are kids are obtaining product across the internet, they're obtaining product from adults who buy the product and then resell it, so there's a whole lot of practices through which youths obtain these tobacco products that wouldn't be covered by that.
Beyond the clinical trials now, we've given literally hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine to adults and teenagers throughout the country, if we haven't seen anything with the hundreds of millions of doses, we're not going to see anything -- so I think parents should feel comfortable that this vaccine has been given to lots and lots and lots of -- literally to hundreds of millions of people, and that it continues to show a very good safety profile.
The problem is that with so many children and adults infected, even if the percent hospitalization rate is lower, we could see more children hospitalized over a very short period of time, and that certainly puts a strain on our health care resources.
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