What does grown-up mean?
Grown-up means Adult, physically mature..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Adult, physically mature..
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
Do you think the grown-ups will have the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us?
Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means.
Use grown-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grown-up means Adult, physically mature..
Common synonyms include adult, adultlike, adulty, grown up.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
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