From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishadultad‧ult1 /ˈædʌlt, əˈdʌlt/●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるS2W2AWL noun [countable]1ADULTa fully-grown person, or one who is considered to be legally responsible for their actions → childSome children find it difficult to talk to adults.2ADULTa fully-grown animalThe adults have white bodies and grey backs.Examples from the Corpusadult• Prosecutors are seeking to have the 15-year-old defendant tried as an adult.• But when I became an adult, I began to see the importance of those abstractprinciples in a personal way.• Children cannot be admitted to the museum unless they are accompanied by an adult.• Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did.• Being responsible for my sons turned me into an adult as had nothing else in the forty years before.• Since I left school, my parents have started to treat me like an adult.• An adult has a vastarray of comparatively complexschemata that permit a great number of differentiations.• The cost of the trip is 59ドル for adults and 30ドル for children.• Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterateadult.• The adultreplies: Oh, come on.adultadult2●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるW3AWL adjective1[only before noun]ADULT fully grown or developedan adult lionthe adult populationHe lived most of his adult life in Scotland.2ADULTtypical of an adult’s behaviour or of the things adults dodealing with problems in an adult wayThat wasn’t very adult of you.3SEX/HAVE SEX WITH[only before noun] adult films, magazines etc are about sex or related to sexThe film is rated R for language and adult themes.Examples from the Corpusadult• The disease can be very serious in adult animals.• Soon the skin of the pupasplits open, and the fully-formed adultbutterflyemerges.• Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teachingposts in adulteducation.• The government has announced plans to increase spending on adult education.• Ten adultelephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.• R: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adultguardian.• In his adult life all these painfulthoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness.• Adult magazines in shops must be kept where children cannot see them.• It was thought that the skull was too small and light to belong to an adultmale.• Over 30% of the adultpopulation were illiterate.• Forman gives us a version of Flynt as an impish, natural man, the Bart Simpson of the adultpublishing world.• The book is intended for adultreaders.• But escalation is not usually associated with adultsexuality.• From what I saw, the repression all seemed to originate externally, from parents and the rest of adultsociety.• You need to deal with your problems in an adult way.• They attempt to adoptadultword forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.adult life• Being overweight, when young or in your adult life. 3.• Feargal's censure, Phena's bitterness - a hell of a burden to carry all your adult life.• Marriage, though not the socialimperative it once was, still stands for a majorrite of passage into adult life.• Louis, Ray has spent most of his adult lifebehindbars.• A native of Richmond, he lived much of his adult lifebouncing around the WestCoast via train or sometimes car.• Having to face schoolmates calling Dad a drunk makes the sticks and stones of adult lifeeasier to deflect.• He has spent most of his adult life in the States.• For the first time in her adult life, Polly went to bed without bathing or cleaning her teeth.• In adult life, similarimages are formed.Originadult2(1500-1600)Latin past participle of adolescere"to grow up"