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Meanings

  1. legally capable; mature; of age and not incapacitated; able to take independent legal and political decisions

    1914, Erich Mühsam, Idealistisches Manifest, in: Alarm. Manifeste aus 20 Jahren, Der Syndikalist, page 52The youth, the offspring, the coming generation declared itself of age. The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.

  2. no-comparativeof age; of full age

  3. responsible; mature

Examples

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Mündige, informierte Bürger sind die Geißel eines jeden Tyrannen.Empowered, informed citizens are the scourge of any tyrant.
Wir haben das Recht zu wählen, wenn wir mündig sind.We have the right to vote when we come of age.