Usually means: Person legally recognized as mature.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word adult:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adult: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adult: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adult: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adult: Vocabulary.com
  6. adult: Wordnik
  7. adult: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adult: Wiktionary
  9. adult: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adult: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adult: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adult: Dictionary.com
  13. adult (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adult: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. .ADULT, ADULT, Adult (album), Adult (band), Adult (magazine), Adult, .adult: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adult: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adult: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adult: Rhymezone
  19. adult: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adult: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adult: Free Dictionary
  22. adult: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adult: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. adult: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. adult: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Adult: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. adult: Legal dictionary
  8. adult: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adult: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. adult: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ADULT: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. adult: Natural History Terms

(Note: See adulthood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fully grown human or other animal.
noun:  A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
adjective:  Fully grown.
adjective:  Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
adjective:  Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
adjective:  (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
adjective:  (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
adjective:  Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.
adjective:  Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To behave like an adult.
verb:  (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

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