coming of age
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coming of age
noun comings of age
- A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
- A maturation; a transition from an inchoate state to a developed state. 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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noun person's journey from childhood to adulthood
| 中文 | 成年 chéngnián |
|---|---|
| Português | amadurecimento |
| Français | passage à l'âge adulte |
| Deutsch | Erwachsenwerden |
| Italiano | (il) diventare maggiorenne, raggiungimento dell'età adulta |
| Русский | переходный возраст perexodnyj vozrast |
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title = {coming of age},
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