"act one's age" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-act one's age.ogg Forms: acts one's age [present, singular, third-person], acting one's age [participle, present], acted one's age [participle, past], acted one's age [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} act one's age (third-person singular simple present acts one's age, present participle acting one's age, simple past and past participle acted one's age)
  1. (idiomatic) To behave in a manner appropriate to one's age. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: behave one's age Derived forms: act one's age, not one's shoe size
    Sense id: en-act_one's_age-en-verb-rob0XamI Categories (other): English catchphrases, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of English catchphrases: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 61 39
  2. (imperative, originally US) To behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish. Tags: imperative Translations (to be mature and not childish): 别没大没小的 (Chinese Mandarin), 不要孩子气 (Chinese Mandarin), käyttäytyä (kunnolla) (Finnish), sich seinem Alter entsprechend benehmen (German), uzvesties atbilstoši savam vecumam (Latvian), comporte-se (Portuguese), вести́ себя́ соотве́тственно своему́ во́зрасту (vestí sebjá sootvétstvenno svojemú vózrastu) (Russian), comportarse (Spanish), ทำตัวให้เป็นผู้ใหญ่ (Thai)
    Sense id: en-act_one's_age-en-verb-IMUnJp9p Categories (other): American English, English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 38 62 Disambiguation of 'to be mature and not childish': 5 95

Inflected forms

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      "word": "别没大没小的"
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      "sense": "to be mature and not childish",
      "word": "вести́ себя́ соотве́тственно своему́ во́зрасту"
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      "sense": "to be mature and not childish",
      "word": "comportarse"
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      "code": "th",
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      "sense": "to be mature and not childish",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "act one's age"
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