Usually means: Fully developed in mind, behavior.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mature: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mature: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mature: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mature: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mature: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mature, mature: Wordnik
  7. mature: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mature: Wiktionary
  9. mature: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mature: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mature: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mature: Dictionary.com
  13. mature (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mature: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mature (The King of Fighters), Mature (disambiguation), Mature: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mature: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mature: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mature: Rhymezone
  19. mature: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mature: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mature: Free Dictionary
  22. mature: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mature: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mature: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. mature: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Mature: bizterms.net
  5. Mature: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. mature: Legal dictionary
  7. Mature: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mature: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mature: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. mature: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/m.html">Mature: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  3. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See matured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
adjective:  Brought to a state of complete readiness.
adjective:  Profound; careful.
adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
adjective:  (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
verb:  (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
verb:  (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

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