grown-up
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
grown-up (comparative more grown-up, superlative most grown-up)
SynonymsEdit
- (pertaining to adults): adulty; see also Thesaurus:adultlike
- (suitable for adults): mature; see also Thesaurus:for adults
- (adult: physically fully developed): developed; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- (adult: maturely behaved): adultish; see also Thesaurus:mature
TranslationsEdit
adult, fully grown — See also translations at adult
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NounEdit
- An adult. (used especially by children)
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
TranslationsEdit
an adult — see adult