おとな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おとな – see the following entry.

【大人】 [noun] an adult, a grown-up [noun] (uncommon, possibly archaic) a leader: [noun] an elder of a group or community [noun] in the late Muromachi period, the representative of a village or guild [noun] the head lady-in-waiting [noun] one's wife [noun] in the Edo period, a kind of civil servant working in Nagasaki [noun] the head servant [adjective] mature; grown-up [adjective] adult; sexual

(This term, おとな, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)