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- Specific word for grown-up children? [duplicate]
Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?
- What is the term for young adult male female (aged 18 to 25)?
Finally, and probably best in your case, you can use youngster (s) Once more, though, this is a term that is used by older people towards younger ones It is more used for teenagers and young adults than for actual children but it also carries an implication that the person using the term is older than those she is describing
- what do you call a person who has chosen not to have children?
Childfree is suggested in What's a good word to describe adults who are not yet parents?; whether that term can be used generically or refers to a particular subculture is not addressed I do not think everyone who chooses not to have children accepts the label childfree, any more than every motorcyclist is a biker or every well-groomed man is a metrosexual
- possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . .
I am an adults' English teacher suggests that you teach multiple adults On the other hand, these sentences are both awkward Possessives tend to work less well when long phrases are involved In this case, it can become less clear what the possessive is determining: is the subject you teach "adult ('s s') English" or "English"?
- Terms to describe age groups - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I have three age groups that I want to distinguish in my research project They are as follows: 18-45 years - I have called this group young adults 46-65 years - I have called this group adults 66
- single word requests - What do you call a person who has a relationship . . .
What do I call someone who marries or has a sexual relationship with someone much younger than themselves? Their partner is someone who is at least 18 years old The term paedophile is not the c
- Is there a synonym analogue to he said, she said that allows a . . .
It's impressive if you can be polite and agreeable when you are stressed to the hilt—and she was ) Both of these situations are different on at least one point of a "he said, she said" situation in that all (adults) involved appreciate the other side at least somewhat, and that the two accounts can be connected in a coherent understanding
- Correct hyphenation of age groups (18-25-year-olds 18- to 25-year . . .
Let's imagine you have a table showing several age groups of adults such as 18-25, 26-40, 41-60 etc I've found several different sources using different variations and cannot find a reliable source that confirms if one or all three are acceptable: 18-25-year-olds 18- to 25-year-olds 18 to 25-year-olds
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