Adulthood

Definitions: Adulthood

Adulthood

Noun

1. The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed.

2. The state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity.

Date "adulthood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonym: Adulthood

Synonym: maturity (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Adulthood

English words defined with "adulthood": acne vulgaris, adolescence ♦ hereditary cerebellar ataxia, Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adulthood": Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Adulthood Rites: Xenogenesis (Xenogenesis, Vol 2) (reference) Driven to Distraction/Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood (reference) Family Re-Union: Reconnecting Parents and Children in Adulthood (reference) For Mothers of Difficult Daughters; How to Enrich and Repair the Relationship in Adulthood (reference) Learning in Adulthood : A Comprehensive Guide (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Socrates	In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Seizures generally disappear by adulthood. (references)
		Often they don't cause disease until adulthood. (references)
		By mid adulthood, the individual is usually blind. (references)
Children	Afghanistan	An UNICEF study reported that the majority of children is highly traumatized and expect to die before reaching adulthood. (references)
Women	Kenya	In an attempt to end FGM, some members of the Marakwet and Maasai ethnic groups instituted new "no cut" initiation rites for girls entering adulthood. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Adulthood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adulthood" is used about 300 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	300	16,755

Expression using "adulthood": reach adulthood. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "adulthood": non-adulthood.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "adulthood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		moshë madhore (majority). (various references)

Arabic		‏سن البلوغ (puberty), ‏بلوغ (accomplishment, maturity, puberty, pubescence, ripening). (various references)

Bulgarian		старост (age, anility, anno, anno domini, antiquity, old age, senility). (various references)

Chinese		成年. (various references)

Czech		dospìlost (majority, manhood, matureness, maturity). (various references)

Danish		voksenpsykologi (adulthood psychology). (various references)

Dutch		volwassenheid. (various references)

French		psychologie de l'adulte (adulthood psychology). (various references)

German		Erwachsensein. (various references)

Greek		ενηλικιότητα (age of consent). (various references)

Hebrew		ב�'רות (majority, manhood, matriculation, maturity). (various references)

Hungarian		felnőttkor. (various references)

Indonesian		masa dewasa, kebaligan (puberty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		丁年 (age 20, majority). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ていね�" (age 20, age limit, majority, retirement age, retiring age). (various references)

Korean		성년. (various references)

Manx		eash ven, eash ghooinney (manhood). (various references)

Pig Latin		adulthooday

Portuguese		maioridade (full container load, majority). (various references)

Russian		зрелость (manhood, maturity, nubility, ripeness, womanhood, womanhoods). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zrelo doba (manhood), odraslost. (various references)

Spanish		edad adulta. (various references)

Swedish		mogen ålder (age of discretion). (various references)

Turkish		yetişkinlik (majority), reşitlik (majority), erginlik (age, discretion, matureness, nubility, puberty, ripeness). (various references)

Ukranian		повнорічність, дорослість. (various references)

Vietnamese		tuổi trưởng th� nh, tuổi khôn lớn (full age). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adulthood": adulthoods. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adulthood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adelheid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adulthood" (pronounced udu"lthuh'd)
4	-t h uh' d	knighthood, parenthood, sainthood, statehood.
3	-h uh' d	babyhood, boyhood, brotherhood, childhood, falsehood, fatherhood, girlhood, likelihood, livelihood, manhood, motherhood, nationhood, neighborhood, victimhood, womanhood.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-h-l-o-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: holdout.
	-3 letters: outadd.
	-4 letters: adult, ahold, aloud, altho, dotal, hodad, loath, lotah, outdo.
	-5 letters: alto, auld, auto, dado, dahl, dato, daut, dhal, doat, dodo, dolt, doth, duad, dual, halo, halt, haul, haut, hold, holt, hood, hoot, hula, lath, laud, load, loot, lota, loth, loud, lout, oath, thou, thud, toad, tola, told, tolu, tool.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-h-l-o-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: adulthoods.
	+3 letters: thousandfold.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 75 6C 74 68 6F 6F 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101000 01101111 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0075 006C 0074 0068 006F 006F 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
adulthood	38
adulthood middle	20
late adulthood	16
adulthood early	14
adulthood young	10
adolescent adulthood	6
adulthood stage	4
adulthood journey	4
adulthood biosocial development late	3
adulthood aging psychology	3
adulthood emerging	3
adulthood development in late physical	3
adulthood harry potter	2
adulthood age legal	2
adulthood cognitive development in late	2
adulthood age	2
adulthood change in middle physical	2
adulthood developmental middle task	2
adulthood later	2
transition to adulthood	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Adulthood

Definitions: Adulthood

Adulthood

Noun

Synonym: Adulthood

Crosswords: Adulthood

Commercial Usage: Adulthood

Books

Familiar Quotations: Adulthood

Socrates

Non-Fiction Usage: Adulthood

Health

Children

Afghanistan

Women

Kenya

Usage Frequency: Adulthood

Expression: Adulthood

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adulthood

adulthood

adulthood middle

late adulthood

adulthood early

adulthood young

adolescent adulthood

adulthood stage

adulthood journey

adulthood biosocial development late

adulthood aging psychology

adulthood emerging

adulthood development in late physical

adulthood harry potter

adulthood age legal

adulthood cognitive development in late

adulthood age

adulthood change in middle physical

adulthood developmental middle task

adulthood later

transition to adulthood

Modern Translations: Adulthood

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

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Ukranian

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Adulthood

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Adulthood"

Anagrams: Adulthood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Adulthood

41 64 75 6C 74 68 6F 6F 64

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01000001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101000 01101111 01101111 01100100

&#65 &#100 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#100

0041 0064 0075 006C 0074 0068 006F 006F 0064

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