how to pronounce adulthood
/ˈæd.ʌlt.hʊd/
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adulthood is pronounced in three syllables
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An example use of adulthood in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… support into adulthood with better local …”
meanings of adulthood
noun:
- The time period of a human being's majority; the time during which a human being has reached physical maturity, and ending with its death.
- The state or condition of a human being once it has reached physical maturity, and is presumed to have reached a state of psychological maturity, to wit: once it has become an adult.
adulthood frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR
the word adulthood occurs in english on average 3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics adulthood 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 adulthood can be often used in the following areas:
1) life, nature, and living environment;
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