come into one's own
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance.
Example Sentences
- "And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. . . . [T]he old tricks . . . came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always. . . . [T]he ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again."
- "Sally just swept along smiling at every one. . . . Sally looked just as if she had come into her own and was made for it; I never did see her look so pretty."
- "The eyes of the wood-cutter flash like actual possession. He seems now to have come into his own. With all his senses, he is dominant, sure."
- "Everywhere the people would come into their own, and war and tyranny would vanish like a hateful nightmare! Speaker after speaker got up to proclaim this glorious future."
- "Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other."
- "The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies."