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adults

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1. adults

   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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1. 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  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'adults' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3080

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'adults' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2955

How to pronounce adults?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say adults in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adults in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adults in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of adults in a Sentence

1. Justin Flexen:

   It’s like naptime for adults so it gives you some time to just let everything go, fall into the hammock, and let gravity take over and just rest.

2. Teresa Downing-Matibag:

   Dressing girls like grown women for Halloween communicates that they have the sexuality of adults, in the bodies of children, while little girls themselves likely have very little awareness of adult or even adolescent sexuality, or what sex is really about, the adults who are seeing them on the streets do. We are also communicating to adults that little girls are sexually appealing, and this message has tragic implications for their vulnerability to sexual abuse.

3. Sandra Fryhofer:

   It's a neat cheat for patients, nurses, physicians, everyone to refer to, as time has gone on, adult immunization has got more complicated as we have more vaccines for adults.

4. Russ Toomey:

   These results reiterate the need to believe children and adolescents( and adults) when they assert and share their gender with the adults in their lives.

5. Ken Johnson:

   There is sort of a nostalgia among many for rural America, i think that sometimes, places are often better in memory than in reality. But for others, I think some of the return migration of older adults in a rural area is about that (sense of) community they may have felt as young people.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adults