adulte
French, noun/a.dylt/
adulte is spelled A-D-U-L-T-E (6 letters) and appears 24 times per million words in written French, the 3,248th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adulte is a French feminine noun meaning “adult” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui est parvenue à sa maturité psychologique et intellectuelle”.
What does adulte mean in English?
adjective
- 1
adult
noun
- 1
femininemasculineadult
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui est parvenue à sa maturité psychologique et intellectuelle. 2. Personne, animal ou tout autre être vivant qui est parvenu au terme de sa formation. 3. Personne ayant fini sa croissance. 4. Personne ayant atteint la majorité civile.
adjective: 1. Qui a terminé sa puberté, dépassé l'adolescence. 2. Qui a atteint la majorité légale. 3. Destiné à un public majeur, euphémisme de pornographique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adulte
- adultes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adulte?
- /a.dylt/
- \a.dylt\
- [a.dylt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adulte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adulte in French?
adulte appears 24 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).