adultとは

発音

• (Received 発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
  • (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
  • 韻: -ʌlt

名詞

adult (複数形 adults)

1. A fully grown human or animal.
2. A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

派生語

• adultly
• adultness

形容詞

adult (comparative more adult, superlative most adult)

1. Fully grown.

   an adult human, animal, or plant

2. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.

   adult clothes

3. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.

   an adult movie

   This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.

4. Vulgar or profane.

同意語

• (fully grown): big, fully grown, grown up
• (unsuitable for children): blue, dirty, lewd, obscene, pornographic, X-rated, XXX, XXXX

関連する語

• adolescent
• adulthood

動詞

adult (三人称単数 現在形 adults, 現在分詞 adulting, 過去形および過去分詞形 adulted) (transitive)

2. (nonstandard, まれに) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
   • 1974, Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:

     Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]

   • 2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art →ISBN, page 84:

     The process of adulting children […] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media […] into children’s imagination.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:adult.

Further reading

• adult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• adult in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911