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Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children "adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them And someone might use it to emphasise that their children have left home or aren't dependent on them But you wouldn't introduce someone as "my adult child ren"
etymology - What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’? - English . . . There's also the term "blue laws", for laws restricting activities on the Sabbath It also has an unknown origin, although some sites guess that they were printed on blue paper (Snopes says they can't find any evidence of this)
Was man a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point? Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then
meaning - Are adult and adulterate cognates? - English Language . . . 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 - to falsify, corrupt Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?
What is the word for an adult who is not mature? What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?
Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp a male that has had its sexual organs removed (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox as: An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal
Adult children? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood