Definition of "of age" []

• Old enough to be considered an adult (in law, or by society generally). (adjective)

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• "Anderson, a petite woman whose demure demeanor belies her resolve for her mission, had also come of age in the East Ferry/ Delavan-Grider area of Buffalo."
• "The management of the Protectory claim that the girls 'department cannot be considered a reformatory or even a home for delinquent children, and express their satisfaction with the recent amendment of the law in New York to prohibit the conviction of children under sixteen years of age of crime as such, restricting the complaint to delinquency."
• "His Bactrian bride Roxane was pregnant, he hoped with a boy, though the child would not be of age for many years to come even if the Macedonians would accept a half-barbarian ruler on the throne."