age of consent

See also: age-of-consent

English

Noun

age of consent (plural ages of consent)

(law) The age at which a person is legally considered to be mature enough to engage willingly in sexual intercourse, so that it is not a crime for someone else to have sex with the person.
In France the age of consent is 15 years of age.

Translations

an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex

Afrikaans: ouderdom van toestemming
Albanian: mosha e pëlqimit
Amharic: የፍቺ ዕድሜ (yäfči ʿdme)
Armenian: համաձայնության տարիքը (hamajaynutʿyan tarikʿə)
Azerbaijani: razılıq yaşı
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同意年齡, 同意年龄 (tóngyì niánlíng)
Danish: seksuel lavalder c
Finnish: suojaikäraja (fi)
French: majorité sexuelle (fr) f
Georgian: თანხმობის ასაკი (tanxmobis asaḳi)
German: Schutzalter n
Greek: ενηλικιότητα (el) f (enilikiótita)
Hebrew: גיל ההסכמה‎ m (gil hahaskamah)

Icelandic: samræðisaldur m, lögriðilsaldur m (used colloquially and jokingly)
Italian: età del consenso f
Japanese: 性的同意年齢 (せいてきどういねんれい, seiteki dōi nenrei)
Kazakh: келісім жасына (kelisim jasına)
Kyrgyz: макулдугу жашы (makuldugu caşı)
Norwegian: seksuell lavalder m
Persian:
Arabic: سن قانونی‎
Polish: wiek przyzwolenia m inan
Russian: во́зраст сексуа́льного согла́сия m (vózrast sɛksuálʹnovo soglásija)
Tagalog: gulang ng pagpayag
Tajik: синну соли розигӣ (sinnu soli rozigī)
Turkish: reşitlik yaşı
Uzbek: rozilik yoshi

See also

Further reading

age of consent at OneLook Dictionary Search
age of consent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A map of ages of consent of various countries.

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