age of majority

English

Noun

age of majority (plural ages of majority)

1. (law) The age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are legally granted or recognized; i.e.; the age where a person ceases to be a minor legally and becomes a legal adult.

   In Indiana the age of majority is 18 years.

   Synonym: legal age

Translations

age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are legally granted

• Arabic: سِنّ الرُّشْد f (sinn ar-rušd)
• Azerbaijani: həddi-büluğ
• Belarusian: паўнале́цце n (paŭnaljéccje)
• Bulgarian: пълноле́тие (bg) n (pǎlnolétie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法定年齡／法定年龄 (fǎdìng niánlíng), 成年年齡／成年年龄 (chéngnián niánlíng), 成人年齡／成人年龄 (chéngrén niánlíng)

• Czech: zletilost f, plnoletost f
• Danish: myndighedsalder (da) c
• Esperanto: plenaĝo
• Finnish: täysi-ikäisyyden ikäraja
• French: majorité civile f, majorité légale f
• German: Volljährigkeit (de) f, Volljährigkeitsalter n
• Hungarian: nagykorúság (hu)
• Icelandic: sjálfræðisaldur m, (sometimes used with definite; sjálfræðisaldurinn m)
• Japanese: 法定年齢 (ほうていねんれい, hōteinenrei)
• Kalmyk: нас күцлһн (nas kütslğn)
• Korean: 법정 연령(法定年齡) (beopjeong yeollyeong)
• Macedonian: полнолетност (polnoletnost), полнолетство n (polnoletstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: myndighetsalder (no) m

  Nynorsk: myndig alder m, myndigalder m

• Polish: pełnoletniość (pl) f, pełnoletność (pl) f
• Portuguese: maioridade (pt) f
• Romanian: majorat (ro) n
• Russian: совершенноле́тие (ru) n (soveršennolétije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̏нолетно̄ст f, пу̏нољетно̄ст f

  Roman: pȕnoletnōst f, pȕnoljetnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: plnoletosť f
• Slovene: polnoletnost f
• Spanish: mayoría de edad f
• Swedish: myndighetsålder c
• Thai: นิติภาวะ (th) (ní-dtì-paa-wá)
• Ukrainian: повнолі́ття n (povnolíttja)

See also

• adulthood
• age of consent
• major
• maturity
• minor