mature

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See also: mâture and maturé

English

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)

  1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
    She is quite mature for her age.
  2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.
    a mature plan
  3. Profound; careful.
    The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
  4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  5. (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
    mature content

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Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

  1. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature or ripe.
    Synonym: ripen
    • 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, London, Chapter 35, p. 246,[1]
      […] Trees […] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;
  2. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
    • 1782, William Cowper, “Charity” in Poems, London: J. Johnson, p. 202,[2]
      […] a ship well freighted with the stores
      The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,
    • 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits
      There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.
  3. (intransitive, of a person) To become mature or full-grown; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
    Synonym: grow up
  4. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
    • 1776, Hannah Cowley, The Runaway, London, Prologue,[3]
      Then Tom shall have his kite, and Fan new dollies,
      Till time matures them for important follies.
    • 1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, Chapter 2, part 6, p. 103,[4]
    • […] what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me;
  5. (intransitive) To come to maturity, full development or completion (of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
    • 1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth” in The Comick Magazine, London: Harrison and Co., Volume 1, p. 3,[5]
      […] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.
  6. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 659-660,[6]
      […] But these thoughts
      Full Counsel must mature:
    • 1768, John Hoole, Cyrus: A Tragedy, London: T. Davies, Act I, p. 12,[7]
      […] much it now
      Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
      Matures our enterprize;
    • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,[8]
      […] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days […]
    • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, Chapter 8, p. 143,[9]
      […] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.
  7. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

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Translations

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation

Adjective

mature (plural matures)

  1. (of a person) mature

Verb

mature

  1. first-person singular present indicative of maturer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of maturer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
  5. second-person singular imperative of maturer

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Adjective

mature f pl

  1. feminine plural of maturo

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) mātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

References

  • “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

mature

  1. Alternative form of matere

Portuguese

Verb

mature

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
  3. third-person singular imperative of maturar
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