18
Legal adulthood threshold
Eighteen, the number after seventeen and before nineteen.
As an age, eighteen marks legal adulthood in many countries—voting, signing contracts, military service: She turned eighteen last month.
In card games like blackjack, eighteen is a decent but risky hand.
An eighteen-wheeler is a large semi-truck.
Annual date of origin
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- adulthoodState of being grown
- legalPermitted by statute
- thresholdPoint of beginning
transition · ceremony · celebration · debut · quinceañera · rite · passage · landmark
Right to cast ballots
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- ballotVoting document
- electionOrganized public voting
- democracyRule by the people
electorate · registration · civic · citizenship · poll · referendum · eligible · vote
birthday
Annual date of origin
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- adulthoodState of being grown
- legalPermitted by statute
threshold · transition · ceremony · celebration · debut · quinceañera · rite · passage · landmark · independence
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
democracy · electorate · registration · civic · citizenship · poll · referendum · eligible · vote · political
hole
Absence in matter
fairway · stroke · birdie · bogey · round · scorecard · clubhouse · links · championship · putt
argon
Unreactive element eighteen
chemistry · electron · proton · neutron · isotope · shell · orbital
- numbersone, two, four, three, 0
- content ratingsMPAA, rating system, movie rating, movie ratings, TV ratings
- Film RatingsU, PG, 12, 15, universal
- elevator buttons1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- atomic numbers1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Hebrew mysticismKabbalah, Sefer Yetzirah, Tree of Life, tetragrammaton, YHWH