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come of age

verb

1 come of age

Reach a certain age that marks a transition to maturity.

Roget 131: come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis [Lat.]; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats.   


Moby thesaurus: attain majority, bloom, come to maturity, develop, fledge, flower, grow, grow up, leave the nest, mature, mellow, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ripen, season, settle down, temper, toga virilis.

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