Adult
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
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Adult Quotations
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Johnny Depp
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
Adult Translations
adult in Afrikaans is volwasse
adult in Dutch is volwassene, adult
adult in French is adulte
adult in German is erwachsen, Erwachsener, erwachsen
adult in Italian is adulto
adult in Latin is adultus (adj.)
adult in Norwegian is voksen
adult in Portuguese is adulto
adult in Spanish is adulto
adult in Swedish is vuxen, fullvuxen
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