Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not arrived at adult age; in a state of pupilage; immature.
- noun One who has not arrived at adult age; a youth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not adult; immature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
adult - noun one who is not an
adult
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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• "nonadult": If the video does not include sex or nudity.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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• "nonadult": If the video does not include sex or nudity.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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• "nonadult": If the video does not include sex or nudity.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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Variations on "MySpace," the name of the social-networking site, were three of the top four nonadult searches in the first 11 months of 2007, according to the Internet-tracking firm Hitwise, which gets its data from logs of Internet-service providers with users 'names removed.
What Topics Filled 2007
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When you move to an identified internet, you move to a real-names internet (you can’t just classify adult/nonadult and have that information be useless to figure out other identifying information; the credit card number, for example, identifies a specific person), compromising the basic right of anonymity online.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Scott’s just happy to have another nonadult around.
PURGATORY RIDGE WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2001
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