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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
adult
adult AW [adult adults] noun, adjective BrE [ˈædʌlt] NAmE [ˈædʌlt] BrE [əˈdʌlt] NAmE [əˈdʌlt]
noun
1. a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions
Syn: ↑grown-up
• Children must be accompanied by an adult.
• Why can't you two act like civilized adults?
2. a fully grown animal
• The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed.
Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.
Thesaurus:
adult noun C
•Can't you two act like civilized adults?
grown-up •
Opp: child, Opp: minor
act/behave/talk/eat like a/an adult/grown-up
a responsible adult/grown-up
Adult or grown-up? Grown-up is often used by or to children
•Ask a grown-up to help you.
Example Bank:
•I simply can't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets.
•The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.
•This book will definitely appeal to teenagers and young adults.
•What consenting adults do in private is their own business.
•Why can't you two act like civilized adults?
adjective
1. fully grown or developed
•preparing young people for adult life
•the adult population
•adult monkeys
2. behaving in an intelligent and responsible way; typical of what is expected of an adult
Syn: ↑grown-up
• When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.
3. only before noun intended for adults only, because it is about sex or contains violence
•an adult movie
see also ↑adulthood
Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.
Thesaurus:
adult adj.
•preparing young people for adult life
grown • • grown-up • • mature •
Opp: juvenile, Opp: childish
a/an adult/grown/mature man/woman
a grown-up/mature child/boy/girl
Adult or mature? Adult most often refers to physical development; mature most often refers to mental development
•an adult male
• adult education (= for adults, not children)
• a mature conversation/attitude (= sensible, not childish)
Example Bank:
•She spent her entire adult life caring for others.
•Young children become quickly bored by adult conversation.
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