Noun
a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood)
Source: WordNetI think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. Orlando Bloom
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. Danny Glover
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. Katherine Applegate
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. Kenny Loggins
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. Pete Townshend
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. Drew Barrymore