I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ young
▪
This book will definitely appeal to teenagers and young ~s.
▪ single
▪
The number of single-adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.
▪ consenting
▪
What consenting ~s do in private is their own business.
▪ responsible
▪
I simply can't believe that responsible ~s allowed a child to wander the streets.
ADULT + NOUN
▪ education , literacy
▪ population
II.
adj.
Adult is used with these nouns: ↑ bird , ↑ child , ↑ conversation , ↑ daughter , ↑ diaper , ↑ education , ↑ entertainment , ↑ fare , ↑ fiction , ↑ form , ↑ illiteracy , ↑ incest , ↑ learner , ↑ life , ↑ literacy , ↑ male , ↑ mortality , ↑ novel , ↑ offender , ↑ patient , ↑ population , ↑ reader , ↑ responsibility , ↑ site , ↑ size , ↑ son , ↑ specimen , ↑ stage , ↑ supervision , ↑ ticket , ↑ tooth , ↑ video , ↑ viewer , ↑ woman