coming of age

See also: coming-of-age

English

Noun

coming of age (usually uncountable, plural comings of age)

1. A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
2. (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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成年 (zh) (chéngnián)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kasvu (fi), kasvaminen (fi)
• French: passage à l’âge adulte m
• German: Erwachsenwerden (de) n
• Hungarian: felnőtté válás/érés, felnövés (hu), felnövekedés
• Italian: (il) diventare maggiorenne m, raggiungimento dell'età adulta m
• Portuguese: amadurecimento (pt) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: mognad (sv) c

See also

• coming-of-age