The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed

Usage examples of adulthood.

And while he still knew that the slim length of thousand-folded steel and hand-cast gilded bronze was more than proficient enough to see him elevated from apprentice smith to master and therefore to adulthood, he was not at all certain it would suffice to pass one final, and more important, muster.

Azzli shouted, sounding far less a prince two years shy of adulthood, than a boy half that age.

Avall or Eddyn had been deemed worthy not only of adulthood, but of a subcraft-chieftainship, which prompted blank stares from both, then quick denial.

Breeders who had recently left their herds, not to mention all those who had graduated to adulthood before them.

Greedo, on the edge of adulthood, had left the games of childhood behind.

Two years ago, Het and Jek Nkik had been separated upon reaching their age of adulthood, sent out to do scavenger duty away from the Jawa fortress.

He explained that this was the time when the adolescents had to perform some great deed to earn adulthood, deeds that often included acts of mayhem against non-Sand People races.

I could offer them a way to be remembered forever in tales and gain an adulthood always honored: negotiate with the Jawas and me to secure the boundaries of their land and thus their nomadic way of life.

Bacteria formed, grew, reached adulthood, had babies and became grandparents.

He is still child enough to believe that adulthood brings certainty and self-confidence.

Change until adulthood, usually between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, a human bitten by a werewolf was a werewolf immediately, regardless of his age.

Jesus, Dean, you and I have spent our whole adulthood talking around anything that mattered.

Camden, where rehearsals of adulthood were rendered miniature by a compression of time and space.

As the only incorporated man in Argali, Maxard Argali had governed the province for Kamoj when she was young and was shifting his role to that of advisor now that she had reached her adulthood.

Chekhov is the autobiographical foundation of the ten Nick Adams stories, which treat the bruising passage from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.