noun
1. the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑maturity
• Hypernyms: ↑time of life
• Hyponyms: ↑prime, ↑prime of life
• Part Meronyms:
↑teens, ↑twenties, ↑mid-twenties, ↑thirties, ↑mid-thirties, ↑thirty-something, ↑forties, ↑mid-forties, ↑fifties, ↑mid-fifties, ↑majority, ↑legal age, ↑drinking age, ↑voting age, ↑middle age
2. the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑adult
• Hypernyms: ↑maturity, ↑matureness
• Hyponyms: ↑manhood, ↑parenthood, ↑parentage, ↑womanhood, ↑muliebrity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.