
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children
Dec 21, 2012 · "adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them. And someone …
Specific word for "grown-up children"? [duplicate]
Mar 5, 2014 · Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?
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meaning - Are "adult" and "adulterate" cognates? - English Language ...
16 The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe. Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, …
What is the word for an adult who is not mature?
May 11, 2014 · What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?
Was "man" a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point?
Jan 14, 2020 · Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c. 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non …
Adult children? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Apr 18, 2017 · "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood.
Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock
Dec 6, 2018 · American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp. a male that has had its sexual organs removed. (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox …
Is there a word to describe mature or adult plants?
I know that adult is most often used to describe a mature human-being, and that mature is a broader usage word, describing everything form animals to cheese. Also that a young tree is a sapling....is …