NOUN
- a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood)
How To Use rite of passage In A Sentence
- There is no rite of passage that so clearly separates the devout from the damned.
- in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage
- Those going to university straight from school still hanker after the rite of passage that going away to university has become. Times, Sunday Times
- And the ordeal of initiation necessitates this brush with exotic death, for the liminal space in the journey of the rite of passage is about the annihilation of self.
- They weren't hazing me, they were teaching me the rite of passage.
- But new recruits are always forced to undergo tough initiation ceremonies as a rite of passage before joining. The Sun
- This period is undoubtedly exciting, a rite of passage and a time to study a favourite subject, make new friends and have some fun. Times, Sunday Times
- Marriage for women also represented a rite of passage - separation from their family of birth, and incorporation into their husband's community.
- Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
- This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.
