"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)
    Sense id: en-grown-up-en-adj-H-snrqSi Disambiguation of Age: 45 21 33 0 Disambiguation of People: 65 13 22 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 15 27 11 Disambiguation of 'adult, fully grown — see also adult': 58 21 22
  2. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults. Synonyms: mature, for adults
    Sense id: en-grown-up-en-adj-SHgXpKLB
  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

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  "word": "grown-up"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.