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  1. expressions - If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be …

    If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be considered "kid"napping? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 11 years, 6 months ago Modified 11 years, 6 months ago

  2. meaning - Are "adult" and "adulterate" cognates? - English …

    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 …

  3. Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children

    Dec 21, 2012 · Is it normal to refer to adult-age sons and daughters of someone as children? A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and …

  4. Adjective for adult children - English Language & Usage Stack …

    May 12, 2017 · Example sentence: The mother and father have a parental duty of care, especially in their offspring's younger years. In return the children have a {adjective for adult children} …

  5. possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher ...

    Sep 6, 2019 · Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase. "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults." If it is important you say teacher, this …

  6. 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.

  7. terminology - synonym for child-like [adult] - English Language

    May 18, 2015 · There is a specific term, and it keeps evading me, that refers to an adult who still embraces child-like wonder, curiosity, etc.... Not inferring a child-like or infantile adult, i.e. …

  8. Word meaning project adult characteristics onto children?

    Dec 14, 2018 · I'm looking for a word that is similar to anthropomorphize but that means projecting adult characteristics onto children. I have a pre-verbal child and it is very easy to make up …

  9. etymology - What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’? - English ...

    Apr 10, 2023 · Conclusions Treating all of G.L. Morrill's forays into the cinema of Marseilles as a single episode, we still have three instances in U.S. English of "blue movie" in the broad sense …

  10. 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 …