come of age

phrase

: to reach maturity

Your class has come of age at a moment of great consequence for our nation and for the world …

—Barack Obama

Examples of come of age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My parents were born during the Great Depression, came of age during World War II. — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Three new technologies, all coming of age at the turn of the millennium, allowed much of the planet to see the same image, concurrently. — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026

Born in 1967 and raised in a Catholic family, Vásquez de la Horra came of age during Pinochet’s military regime, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. — Salomé Gómez-Upegui, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Degenerates Playwright Else Went and her wife, the director Emma Rosa Went, broke the hearts of anyone who came of age in the early aughts with their play Initiative at the Public Theater last fall. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for come of age

• alienage
• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
• outrage