child vs adult vs grown-up
Definitions
noun
- an immature childish person
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- a member of a clan or tribe
Examples
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.
The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
Definitions
adjective
- designed to arouse lust
- (of animals) fully developed
noun
- a fully developed person from maturity onward
- any mature animal
Examples
Thousands of animists joined the Church in 2000 and 1000 adult catechumens are scheduled to be received this Easter.
· “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen.
There is much debate on the issue of "therapists" implanting false memories of sexual abuse in adults.
