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What does come of age mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) To mature, or become fully developed.
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The belief in manifest destiny had opened up North America as far as the West Coast, and after the Civil War the nation had come of age.
Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections.
Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
Printing 22,000 copies in Hindi and 15,000 in Urdu, one of the oldest glossies in India might have finally come of age.
Only in the nineteenth century did the study of energy come of age, with the invention of the branch of physics known as thermodynamics.
As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age.

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