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Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. [from 17th c.]

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Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. [from 17th c.]
  • Critical or crucial; decisive. [from 17th c.]
  • (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal. [from 18th c.]
  • Climactic. [from 18th c.]
  • (botany) (of fruit) That continues to ripen after being harvested.
  • [Noun]
  • A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point. [from 17th c.]
  • A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year). [from 17th c.]
  • (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. [from 18th c.]

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