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Synonyms for puberty

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pyoo-ber-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpyu bər ti

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Définition of puberty

Origin :
  • "the time of life in which the two sexes begin first to be acquainted" [Johnson], late 14c., from Old French puberté and directly from Latin pubertatem (nominative pubertas) "age of maturity, manhood," from pubes (genitive pubertis) "adult, full-grown, manly." Related: Puberal; pubertal.
  • noun young adulthood
Example sentences :
  • Puberty is produced by certain phenomena which occur in the sexual organs.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Puberty is the proper time for the appearance of menstruation.
  • Extract from : « Sex » by Henry Stanton
  • Puberty is the most wonderful, the most significant period in a girl's life.
  • Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
  • Another of the dances that is still kept up is the Puberty Dance.
  • Extract from : « The Lake of the Sky » by George Wharton James
  • Puberty is the proper time for the appearance of menstruation, one of the most important and sacred of her functions.
  • Extract from : « Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects » by Henry Newell Guernsey
  • Puberty immediately succeeds childhood and attends us to the end of our days.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume IV (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • Puberty is a name given to the age at which a boy becomes capable of being a father.
  • Extract from : « Youth and Sex » by Mary Scharlieb and F. Arthur Sibly
  • Puberty, pū′bÄ—r-ti, n. the age of full development: early manhood or womanhood: the period when a plant begins to flower.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
  • Puberty forms the bound between the first and second; marriage that between the second and third.
  • Extract from : « Ethics » by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts
  • Puberty and the approach of senility are pointed out as times when genesiac symptoms manifest themselves.
  • Extract from : « A Problem in Modern Ethics » by John Addington Symonds

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