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AGE OF CONSENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("age of consent" is a kind of...):
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
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