coming of age
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See also: coming-of-age
English
Noun
coming of age (usually uncountable, plural comings of age)
- A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
- (figurative) A maturation, a transition from an inchoate state to a developed state.
- 1979 June 9, Paul Robinson, “Gays in the Streets”, in The New Republic:
- 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.
Translations
person's journey from childhood to adulthood
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