Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
Usage examples of "coming-of-age".
Gaiman's offering is a tender look at a young girl's coming-of-age that plays with the old corvid rhyme, "One for sorrow, two for joy.
It was time for his bar mitzvah, the coming-of-age for a Jewish boy.
As the door continued to fissle behind them, Klaus tried nine keys in a row before finally opening the cabinet, and there, between the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony for young women, and the delicious filling of certain doughnuts, the children found a folder marked "Baudelaire.
What we have here is a coming-of-age story combined with a mid-life crisis.
The book is part coming-of-age novel and part police procedural, because he ends up being recruited by what passes for the police in Bordertown to help this cop solve a problem.