come of age

1. 1.

   reach a certain age that marks a transition to maturity

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Questions about come of age

What does come of age mean?

come of age means "reach a certain age that marks a transition to maturity".

Is come of age a common word?

come of age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.