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Was man a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point? Etymonline comments: Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children Is it normal to refer to adult-age sons and daughters of someone as children? A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaa
meaning - Are adult and adulterate cognates? - English Language . . . 16 The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, corrupt Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?
Is there a word to describe mature or adult plants? I know that adult is most often used to describe a mature human-being, and that mature is a broader usage word, describing everything form animals to cheese Also that a young tree is a sapling is there an equivalent word for a mature plant, tree or shrubbery?
Adjective for adult children - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In return the children have a {adjective for adult children} duty of care to their elderly parents in later years Obviously candidates like "infantile" or "juvenile" don't work as they exclude adult children
possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . . Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults " If it is important you say teacher, this breaks up the information in a way that makes adults more proximal to teacher than English, and uses for to disambiguate the purpose
Is there an alternative term for boyfriend when talking about an . . . I find this word in this context inappropriate I don't know what age an adult has to be before calling him her a boy or girl outside their own immediate circle becomes inappropriate, but surely it is before they hit 100 What is an age-appropriate term for boyfriend (girlfriend) for adults, especially adults of an advanced age?