eighteen

rite of passage

Transition-marking ceremony

• transitionChange from one state
• adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
• youthState of being immature

milestone · quinceañera · debut · debutante · prom · senior year · graduation · high school · formative · identity

numeral

Symbol denoting quantity

• integerNumber lacking fractions
• digitSingle numeric character
• evenUniform and level

multiple · sum · countdown · age · score · dozen · quantity · cardinal · ordinal · figure

independence

Freedom from external control

• responsibilityState of being answerable
• drivingControlling a vehicle
• licenseFormal grant of permission

voting · legal · majority · employment · university · renting · contracts · military · consent · autonomy

suffrage

Right to cast ballots

• ballotVoting document
• democracyRule by the people
• electorateEligible voting body

franchise · civic duty · registration · polls · citizen · participation · first vote · enfranchisement · political · election

holes

Openings through material

• roundCurved like circle
• coursePlanned path forward
• parExpected stroke count

regulation · links · fairway · clubhouse · stroke play · match play · front nine · back nine · green · tee

• numbersone, two, four, three, 0
• teen numbersthirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
• milestone agessweet sixteen, quinceanera, first birthday, sixteen, twenty-one
• age limitsage limit, age requirement, age threshold, age restriction, age of majority
• adolescencepuberty, coming-of-age, growing up, adolescent, pubescent
• two-word numberstwenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-three, forty-four, fifty-five