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    [Noun]  | "com*ing-of-age" | \ ˈkə-miŋ-əv-ˈāj \


    1: the attainment of prominence, respectability, recognition, or maturity


    Origin: 1729 ;

    [Verb]  | "come" | \ ˈkəm \


    1: to move toward something : approach

    2: to move or journey to a vicinity with a specified purpose

    3: to reach a particular station in a series


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English cuman; akin to Old High German queman to come, Latin venire, Greek bainein to walk, go;

    [Noun]  | "coming-of-age" 


    1: the time when a person becomes an adult;


      * e.g., " ... The film is about a young man's coming-of-age. "





     [ "Coming of age" ]

    1: The transition of a person from childhood to adulthood. The maturation of a person. When one becomes an adult.

      * e.g.,  ... Little Karen is no longer little, she is coming of age. 

     [ "coming of age" ]

    1: Used in papers you know noting about, yet mutually respected as a legitimate answer by english teachers everywhere, because they are too afraid to admit they don't know what the ever popular phrase actually means

      * e.g.,  ... It was a coming of age novel about Bestiality. And a young boy. Fucktard. 

     [ "Coming of age" ]

    1: The age you have being in Childhood

      * e.g.,  ... I have came the Coming of age 

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