Tom came to the coming-of-age ceremony in super flashy haori and hakama.
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Coming-of-age
Synonyms for "coming-of-age"
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 成年的 adj (of a person's journey)
Finnish
1 entries- kasvu adj (of a person's journey)
French
1 entries- passage à l'âge adulte adj (of a person's journey)
German
1 entries- vom Erwachsenwerden adj (of a person's journey)
Polish
1 entries- osiągający dojrzałość adj (of a person's journey)
Portuguese
1 entries- amadurecimento adj (of a person's journey)
Sample sentences
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The movie tells the coming-of-age story of a group of high school students.
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22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
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