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(adj)
Alternative form of grown-up. [Adult, physically mature.]
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(of living things, especially animals) Fully developed; adult.
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Of great size, large.
(US) Of a person: adult.
(of animals) fully developed
Adult, physically mature.
(n)
The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression.
old; having lived for relatively many years.
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.
An adult male human.
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
(strictly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
More than half (50%) of some group.
Alternative form of full-fledged. [(of a bird) Having all its feathers; able to fly.]
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
The highest or uppermost part of something.
A continuation.
Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
(adv)
Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.
(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.
(now chiefly US) An old person.
Having reached complete biological maturity
(said of a country) wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)
fully ripe; at the height of bloom
Having experience and skill in a subject.
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
(obsolete, chiefly Kent dialect) Brushwood for fences and hedges.
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
A surname.
The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
(N)
"Teenagers" is the fourth and final single and the eleventh track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade.
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
(American spelling) Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
a 1995 American drama film directed by Larry Clark in his directorial debut and written by Harmony Korine in his screenwriting debut.
Resembling or characteristic of an adult
Alternative form of grown-up. [(often childish) An adult.]
Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.
A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.
(of an animal, especially an insect) In transition between major stages of development, e.g. from pupa to imago.
A child between approximately 10 and 12 years of age, at the onset of adolescence.
an American punk rock band formed in Fullerton, California in 1979.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
A person who, or animal that, is not yet an adult.
A child who has not yet reached puberty.
One who is younger than another.
Before the age at which a person begins puberty.
A young person.
elderly
Of or relating to a parent.
Recently born.
Of or relating to larvae:
(Commonwealth) Standard spelling of pediatric.
A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
(informal) A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
One who is not yet an adult.
(slang, often attributive) A child.
The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.
a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky.
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
A child or animal that is one year of age.
A pure-bred animal.
An adult female horse.
An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
Any young mammal that has been recently weaned.
Having four legs.
(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
An animal that has been recently weaned.
A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
A child, or young animal, that is one month old.
A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.