rite of passage
A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a passage or…A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a passage or transition from one stage of a person's life to another.
» Naming his son after himself felt like a rite of passage.
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2 sensesA ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a passage or transition from one stage of a person's life to another.
(broadly)Any significant event or experience that marks a transition from one stage in a person's life to another.
After John officially attained his majority, Robert bought him his first beer. This is a common American rite of passage.
Passageritus, Erwachsenwerden, Initiation
обря́д посвяще́нияobrjád posvjaščénija
- a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood)
Examples
3 sentencesNaming his son after himself felt like a rite of passage.
As a rite of passage, all adult men learn the clan's secret language.
It's a rite of passage.
ruЭто обряд посвящения. — odexed
Translations
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Origin
From rite + of + passage, a calque of French rite de passage. The French term was coined bFrom rite + of + passage, a calque of French rite de passage. The French term was coined by French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) and popularized in his work Les rites de passage (1909).
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Forms
plural: rites of passage| Singular | rite of passage |
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irregular · Lesson
Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
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