[
US
/əˈdəɫtˌhʊd/
]
[ UK /ɐdˈʌlthʊd/ ]
[ UK /ɐdˈʌlthʊd/ ]
NOUN
- the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
- the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
How To Use adulthood In A Sentence
- However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
- Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
- After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
- Ironically, this doesn't involve her first lover but instead, her best friend, the girl with whom she chose to make the all-important journey into adulthood with. Kate Monro: The Devastatingly Short Virginity Loss Story
- This continues into adulthood, when we wear the colours of our football team and observe the customs of a religious group. Times, Sunday Times
- Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
- He gives the example of initiation into adulthood as a period of liminality in Ndembu society, when the norms of everyday life no longer pertain.
- This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
- And third, the nature of the chronological and psychological passage from youth to adulthood has changed in extraordinary ways.
- These unhealthful eating habits carried on into adulthood, and by the time I entered my mid-20s, I ate whatever my heart desired, without any thoughts about nutrition.