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This page has 25 definitions of mature with English translations in 6 languages. Mature is an adjective, verb and noun. Examples of how to use mature in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

See also: mâture and maturé

English mature definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (ripe, mature).

Adjective

mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)

  1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
    She is quite mature for her age.
    The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being being picked up by family and friends.
  2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.
    a mature plan
  3. Profound; careful.
    The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
  4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  5. (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
    mature content
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Etymology 2

From Middle English maturen, from Middle French maturer (to mature), from Latin mātūrō.

Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

  1. (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
    • 1797, Mr. Harrison, “A Biographical Sketch of Hogarth”, in The Comick Magazine[1], volume 1, London: Harrison and Co., page 3:
      [] his originality, in the mean time, was maturing to perfection.
    Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen
  2. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
    • 1670, Evelyn, John, chapter 35, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-trees, London, page 246:
      [] Trees [] have alwayes Fruit upon them, ripe, or preparing to mature;
    Synonyms: ripen, ripen up
  3. (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
    • 1667, Milton, John, Paradise Lost[2], book 1, lines 659-660:
      [] But these thoughts
      Full Counsel must mature:
    • 1768, Hoole, John, Cyrus: A Tragedy[3], act I, London: T. Davies, page 12:
      [] much it now
      Imports they should be still deceiv’d, till time
      Matures our enterprize;
    • 1853, Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 262,[4]:
      [] I did not interrupt her, I was so busy maturing a plan I had had in my mind for some days []
    • 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 8, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, OCLC 279587, page 143:
      [] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.
  4. (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
    • 1782, Cowper, William, “Charity”, in Poems[5], London: J. Johnson, page 202:
      [] a ship well freighted with the stores
      The sun matures on India’s spicy shores,
    • 2009, Findlay, Hugh, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits[6]:
      There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.
    Synonym: ripen
  5. (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
    Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
  6. (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older
  7. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
    When the bond matures, the full face value is payable to its bearer.
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French mature definition

Etymology

From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mature (plural matures)

  1. (of a person) mature

Verb

mature

  1. inflection of maturer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian mature definition

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈtu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: ma‧tù‧re

Adjective

mature f pl

  1. feminine plural of maturo

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Latin mature definition

Adjective

mātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

References

  • mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mature”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Middle English mature definition

Etymology 1

From Middle French mature and its etymon Latin mātūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /maːˈtiu̯r(ə)/

Adjective

mature (rare, Late Middle English)

  1. mature (ripe)
  2. mature (careful)
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Etymology 2

Noun

mature

  1. Alternative form of matere

Etymology 3

Verb

mature

  1. Alternative form of maturen

Portuguese mature definition

Verb

mature

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
  3. third-person singular imperative of maturar