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# adulthood

noun (adulthood, uncountable)

«adulthood» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The time of life when you are a grown-up, after childhood and the teenage years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and health lessons about life cycles: humans go from baby to childhood to adolescence to adulthood. In stories it marks a character growing up. Phrases: reach adulthood, in adulthood, early adulthood, into adulthood.

### Examples

- Most animals grow fast before they reach adulthood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x1)
- Childhood comes before adulthood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x2)
- Some friendships last into adulthood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x3)
- In adulthood, people often have jobs and pay bills. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x4)
- Frogs reach adulthood after being tadpoles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x5)
- He kept his love of drawing into adulthood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x6)
- The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable. adult + hood (like childhood, neighbourhood). In many countries you legally reach adulthood at 18. Pronounced AD-ult-hood or a-DULT-hood.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «adulthood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adulthood/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«adulthood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/adulthood.html) on Mova free.