Definitions for puberty

puberty pu·ber·ty

Spelling: [pyoo-ber-tee]
IPA: /ˈpyu bər ti/

Puberty is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in puberty (beprtuy).

Definitions for puberty

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of puberty

1350-1400; Middle English puberte Latin pūbertās adulthood, equivalent to pūber-, stem of pūbēs grown-up + -tās -ty2

Examples for puberty

puberty forms the bound between the first and second; marriage that between the second and third.

puberty immediately succeeds childhood and attends us to the end of our days.

puberty is the proper time for the appearance of menstruation.

puberty, pū′bėr-ti, n. the age of full development: early manhood or womanhood: the period when a plant begins to flower.

puberty is the proper time for the appearance of menstruation, one of the most important and sacred of her functions.

Another of the dances that is still kept up is the puberty Dance.

puberty is a name given to the age at which a boy becomes capable of being a father.

puberty is the most wonderful, the most significant period in a girl's life.

puberty is produced by certain phenomena which occur in the sexual organs.

puberty and the approach of senility are pointed out as times when genesiac symptoms manifest themselves.

Word Value for puberty
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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