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单词 grown-up
释义
grown-up
Word forms: grown-ups language note:   The spelling grownup is also used. The syllable up is not stressed when it is a noun.
1. countable noun B2
A grown-up is an adult; used by or to children.
Jan was almost a grown-up.
Tell children to tell a grown-up if they're being bullied.
Synonyms: adult, man, woman  
2. adjective B2
Someone who is grown-up is physically and mentally mature and no longer depends on their parents or another adult.
I have grown-up children who're doing well.
3. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] B2
If you say that someone is grown-up, you mean that they behave in an adult way, often when they are in fact still a child.
She's very grown-up.
4. adjective B2
Grown-up things seem suitable for or typical of adults. [informal]
Her songs tackle grown-up subjects.
She talked in a grown-up manner.
Collocations:
grown-up conversation
If you wanted to have a grown-up conversation about green taxes you might decide that offshore wind was too expensive, costing more than nuclear.
Times, Sunday Times
There needs to be a willingness to move on and 'a grown-up conversation about the sporting calendar'.
Times, Sunday Times
People feel embarrassed, horrified, that it's too emotive or distasteful, but we have to have a grown-up conversation about the issue.
Times, Sunday Times
A grown-up conversation about healthcare needs a long run-up and a grown-up opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a very grown-up conversation.
Times, Sunday Times
grown-up daughter
I'm 41 with a grown-up daughter who's left home.
The Sun
I felt overwhelmed with pride and enjoyment of my beautiful, grown-up daughter, and grateful to have such special one-on-one time.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's also a tale about life - the couple's own and that of their grown-up daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
We are in our forties with one grown-up daughter and have struggled financially for years.
The Sun
We're in our forties and have been married for 20 years, with a grown-up daughter who has now left home.
The Sun
grown-up version
It remains an utterly uplifting tonic for these dark times, and you just hope the producers of the grown-up version were taking notes.
Times,Sunday Times
I do wonder, though, if it's a new grown-up version of writing notes about someone at school.
The Sun
I have never been scared of a horror film because they are the most absurd melodrama, the grown-up version of the wardrobe monsters.
Times, Sunday Times
Gouache paints are the grown-up version of what at school one might have known as powder paints.
The Times Literary Supplement
This new show focuses on the grown-up version - council-house swapping.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 成年人, 长大成人的
Japanese: 成人, 成人した
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