"age of consent" meaning in English

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Noun

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Head templates: {{en-noun|ages of consent}} age of consent (plural ages of consent)

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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "ouderdom van toestemming"
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "code": "az",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "suojaikäraja"
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "età del consenso"
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          "alt": "せいてきどういねんれい",
          "code": "ja",
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          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "kelısım jasyna",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "келісім жасына"
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          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "makuldugu jaşı",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "idade de consentimento"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "word": "vârstă de consimțământ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vózrast sɛksuálʹnovo soglásija",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "gulang ng pagpayag"
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          "roman": "sinnu soli rozigī",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "синну соли розигӣ"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
          "word": "reşitlik yaşı"
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          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "ouderdom van toestemming"
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    {
      "code": "sq",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "suojaikäraja"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tanxmobis asaḳi",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "თანხმობის ასაკი"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "roman": "enilikiótita",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "word": "ενηλικιότητα"
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      "roman": "gil hahaskamah",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "roman": "makuldugu jaşı",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "макулдугу жашы"
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      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "word": "seksuell lavalder"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
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      "word": "wiek przyzwolenia"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "idade de consentimento"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "vârstă de consimțământ"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vózrast sɛksuálʹnovo soglásija",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "во́зраст сексуа́льного согла́сия"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "edad de consentimiento"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sexuell myndighetsålder"
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "gulang ng pagpayag"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "sinnu soli rozigī",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "синну соли розигӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "reşitlik yaşı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex",
      "word": "rozilik yoshi"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.