Usually means: Ceremony marking significant life transition.
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  1. rite of passage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rite of passage: Merriam-Webster
  3. rite of passage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rite of passage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rite-of-passage, rite-of-passage, rite of passage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rite of passage: Vocabulary.com
  7. rite of passage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rite of passage: Wiktionary
  9. rite of passage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rite of passage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. rite of passage: Dictionary.com
  12. Rite of Passage (Stargate SG-1), Rite of Passage (novel), Rite of passage (disambiguation), Rite of passage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. rite of passage: Rhymezone
  14. rite of passage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. rite of passage: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rite of passage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rite-of-passage, rite of passage: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rite of passage: Legal dictionary

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  1. rite of passage: Medical dictionary

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  1. Rite of passage: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rite of passage)

noun:  (anthropology) A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a transition in a person’s life.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) Any significant event or experience in someone's life that marks a transition from one stage to another.

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