"grown-up" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more grown-up [comparative], most grown-up [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} grown-up (comparative more grown-up, superlative most grown-up)
  1. Adult, physically mature. Categories (topical): Age, People Synonyms: adultlike, full-grown, grownup, grown up Translations (adult, fully grown — see also adult): ἁδρός (hadrós) (Ancient Greek), τέλειος (téleios) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), بَالِغ (bāliḡ) (Arabic), даро́слы (darósly) (Belarusian), въ́зрастен (vǎ́zrasten) (Bulgarian), dospělý (Czech), voksen (Danish), aikuinen (Finnish), adulte (French), grand [masculine] (French), adulto [masculine] (Galician), adulta [feminine] (Galician), de maiores (Galician), erwachsen (German), adulto (Italian), adultus (Latin), pubēs (Latin), возрасен (vozrasen) (Macedonian), voksen (Norwegian Bokmål), dorosły (Polish), adùlt (Romagnol), взро́слый (vzróslyj) (Russian), प्रौढ (prauḍha) [masculine] (Sanskrit), वृद्ध (vṛddha) (Sanskrit), о̀дра̄стао [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), òdrāstao [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), dospelý (Slovak), odrasel (Slovene), vuxen (Swedish), śrāy (Tocharian B), доро́слий (doróslyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults. Synonyms: mature, for adults
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  3. Having a mature outlook. Synonyms: adultish, mature
    Sense id: en-grown-up-en-adj-RVYgWg7~

Noun [English]

Forms: grown-ups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grown-up (plural grown-ups)
  1. (often childish) An adult. Tags: childish, often Derived forms: grown-up point
    Sense id: en-grown-up-en-noun-wy-b3NjY

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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.",
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      "roman": "vǎ́zrasten",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "въ́зрастен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "dospělý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "voksen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "aikuinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "adulte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grand"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adulto"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adulta"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "de maiores"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "erwachsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hadrós",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "ἁδρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "téleios",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "τέλειος"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "adulto"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "adultus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "pubēs"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vozrasen",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "возрасен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "voksen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "dorosły"
    },
    {
      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "adùlt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzróslyj",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "взро́слый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "prauḍha",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रौढ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "vṛddha",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "वृद्ध"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "о̀дра̄стао"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "òdrāstao"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "dospelý"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "odrasel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "vuxen"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "śrāy"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "doróslyj",
      "sense": "adult, fully grown — see also adult",
      "word": "доро́слий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grown-up"
}

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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romagnol translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
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    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "grown-up point"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "grown-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "English childish terms",
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        {
          "ref": "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, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 June 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):",
          "text": "Do you think the grown-ups will have the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 August 9, Randall Munroe, “Grownups”, in xkcd (webcomic):",
          "text": "Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adult."
      ],
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        [
          "childish",
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          "adult",
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        "(often childish) An adult."
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "grownup"
    },
    {
      "word": "grown up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grown-up"
}

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