how to pronounce adult

/əˈdʌlt/

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adult is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of adult in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… so only a thinking adult could knowingly …”

meaning of adult

Adult means a person who has reached the age of majority.

adult frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word adult occurs in english on average 61.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics adult can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that adult can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;