| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood |
Synonyms: |
age of consent, drinking age, estate, full age, legal maturity, manhood, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, seniority, voting age, womanhood |
| Notes: | a majority is more than half the votes, while a plurality is simply getting more votes than the other person(s) |
Antonyms: |
adolescence, childhood, minority, underage |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
Synonyms: |
ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
Antonyms: |
childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | salad days |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best time of life |
Synonyms: |
bloom, flower of life, heyday of youth, prime of life, school days, springtime of life, tender age, younger days, youth |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
adolescent, adult, adultoid, beardless, brephic, budding, callow, ephebic, full, grown up, hebrephrenic, impuberal, in one's prime, in one's teens, junior, juvenile, manly, marriageable, matronly, mature, middle, neanic, neotelnic, neotenic, nubile, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, pedomorphic, prepubescent, pubescent, sappy, seasoned, underage, virile, viripotent, womanly, yeanling, young, youngster, youthful
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