おとな

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おとな – see the following entry.
大人
an adult, a grown-up
(uncommon, possibly archaic) a leader:
an elder of a group or community
in the late Muromachi period, the representative of a village or guild
the head lady-in-waiting
one's wife
in the Edo period, a kind of civil servant working in Nagasaki
the head servant
mature; grown-up
adult; sexual
(This term, おとな (otona), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)