0 an official ceremony or informal activity that marks an important stage or occasion in a person's life, especially becoming an adult --
Transition to secondary school is a rite of passage in every childs life journey.
I am sure that many families would welcome a formal opportunity—a rite of passage, as it were—to invite friends and family to an officially recognised naming ceremony.
The report comments that, as the number of young people in employment declines, the capacity for the world of work to provide a rite of passage for young males diminishes.
We have all been children and most of us can see aspects of a rite of passage.
The table of contents leads from the threshold through the narthex and nave to the altar in a spiritual as well as physical rite of passage.
Having come through this rite of passage relatively unscathed, it treated the incident as a near miss, a bad accident that could have been much worse.
In the final analysis the war is not a field of personal honor, but rather a rite of passage into a greater spiritual mystery that non-combatants cannot fathom or comprehend.
For elderly people, however, because the modern ' good ' death is thought to belong to old age, this final rite of passage becomes a scheduled rather than a nonscheduled one.
