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- [pyoo-ber-tee]
- /ˈpyu bər ti/
- /ˈpjuː.bə.ti/
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- [pyoo-ber-tee]
- /ˈpyu bər ti/
Definitions of puberty word
- noun puberty the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female. 1
- noun puberty adolescence 1
- uncountable noun puberty Puberty is the stage in someone's life when their body starts to become physically mature. 0
- noun puberty the period at the beginning of adolescence when the sex glands become functional and the secondary sexual characteristics emerge 0
- noun puberty the stage of physical development when secondary sex characteristics develop and sexual reproduction first becomes possible: in common law, the age of puberty is generally fixed at fourteen for boys and twelve for girls 0
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Origin of puberty
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English puberte < Latin pūbertās adulthood, equivalent to pūber-, stem of pūbēs grown-up + -tās -ty2
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Parts of speech for Puberty
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
puberty popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
puberty usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for puberty
noun puberty
- awkward age — early adolescence.
- childhood — A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
- fertility — the state or quality of being fertile.
- girlhood — the state or time of being a girl.
- greenness — the quality or state of being green.
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