Adult and Man

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Adult noun - A fully grown person.

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Man is a synonym for adult in people topic. In some cases you can use "Man" instead a noun "Adult", when it comes to topics like mature.

Man noun - An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).

Usage example: there were two women and six men on the bus

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Adult is a synonym for man in human topic. You can use "Adult" instead a noun "Man".

Nearby Words: manly, manful, manhood, manliness, manfully

human	human adult	human man
old	old adult	old man
nice	nice adult	nice man
normal	normal adult	normal man
Other adjectives: short, average, small, intelligent, responsible, real, muscular, grown, little, bitter, innocent, attractive, new, angry, last, alive, older, middle-aged, married.

Tin Tin and Haddock in The Adventures of Tintin, a young adult and a man at least in his late thirties/forties.

Source: Intergenerational Friendship
His favorite characters out of those he's played are Duo and Hohenheim, because they resemble himself as a young man and an adult, respectively.

Source: Creator / Scott McNeil
On an even more adult level, an infamous French AIDS campaign showing a woman having sex with a human-sized spider (resp. man/scorpion).

Source: Scare 'Em Straight

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