grownup
a mature, fully grown person; adult.
Origin of grownup
1Other definitions for grown-up (2 of 2)
having reached the age of maturity.
characteristic of or suitable for adults: grown-up behavior; grown-up fiction.
Origin of grown-up
2Other words from grown-up
- grown-upness, noun
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How to use grownup in a sentence
Dog Day Afternoon was on TV: an Al Pacino movie for grownups, but Dad let me watch it with him anyway.
They had that air of grownups trying to make things seem normal in front of the kids.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul | Rilla Askew | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGrownups, it turns out, have just as much to gain from disappearing texts as teenagers.
Confide Is the Best Way to Keep Your Dastardly Deeds Hidden—For Now | Daniel Gross | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGrownups can still be killed by anybody in Texas, miles and miles from a hospital.
On vacation, most kids and grownups want time at the ends of the day to check devices.
Should You Be Your Kid’s Facebook Friend? | Catherine Steiner-Adair | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
There may be no more than innocent imitation of grownups, as the following case shows.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollMr. Manheim went here and there, shaking hands with the grownups and joking with the boys.
Dan Carter and the River Camp | Mildred A. WirtThere set the three other grownups, holdin' their hands over their ears, with pained lookin' faces.
The Confessions of a Daddy | Ellis Parker ButlerThe next window to the right overlooked the part of the terrace where the "grownups" of the family used to sit before luncheon.
Childhood | Leo TolstoyTo the small boy looking round the room it seemed as though twenty awful grownups were waiting in a dead silence to eat him up.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I | Mrs. Humphry Ward
British Dictionary definitions for grown-up
having reached maturity; adult
suitable for or characteristic of an adult
an adult
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