mature

Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈtʃʊə/, /məˈtʃɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈtʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈtʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)

1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

   She is quite mature for her age.

2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.

   a mature plan

3. Profound; careful.

   The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.

4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

• (grown up): childish, immature
• (profound): superficial

• sexually mature

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

1. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
2. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
3. (transitive) To make something mature.
   • 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits

     There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.

4. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due

• mature up

• maturely
• matureness
• maturity

From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

• IPA^(key): /ma.tyʁ/

• Homophones: maturent, matures

mature (plural matures)

1. (of a person) mature

mature

1. first-person singular present indicative of maturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of maturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
5. second-person singular imperative of maturer

• “mature” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -ure

mature f pl

1. feminine plural of maturo

• murate
• mutare
• muterà

mātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

• mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

mature

1. Alternative form of matere

mature

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
3. third-person singular imperative of maturar