AGE OF CONSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does age of consent mean? 

• AGE OF CONSENT (noun)
  The noun AGE OF CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: AGE OF CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGE OF CONSENT (noun)

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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)