adulthood

English

Etymology

From adult +‎ -hood

Noun

adulthood (usually uncountable, plural adulthoods)

1. The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.

   The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

Translations

time of life

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成年 (zh) (chéngnián)

• Czech: dospělost f
• Dutch: volwassenheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: adolteco
• Finnish: täysi-ikäisyys (fi), aikuisuus (fi), aikuisikä
• French: âge adulte (fr) m, majorité (fr) f
• German: Erwachsenenalter n
• Hebrew: בַּגְרוּת‏‎ (he) f (bagrút)
• Hindi: वयस्कता f (vayaskatā)
• Ido: adulteso (io)

• Japanese: 成人であること (ja) (せいじんであること, seijin dearu koto)
• Latin: adulta aetas f
• Polish: dorosłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: adultez f
• Romanian: maturitate (ro) f, vârstă adultă f
• Russian: зре́лость (ru) f (zrélostʹ), взро́слость (ru) f (vzróslostʹ), совершенноле́тие (ru) n (soveršennolétije) (majority, full age)
• Spanish: edad adulta f, adultez (es) f
• Swedish: vuxendom c
• Turkish: yetişkinlik (tr)
• Volapük: daülüp

Antonyms

• childhood