Meaning of coming of age | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
   uncountable, usually
2. A maturation; a transition from an inchoate state to a developed state.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Reasoning of this sort presumes that a significant group in the population has become aware not only of its own existence, but of its rights and power. The riot, I can't help feeling, marks a kind of political coming of age for homosexuals in San Francisco and, vicariously, throughout, the country.”

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