Definitions for nubile

nubile nu·bile

Spelling: [noo-bil, -bahyl, nyoo-]
IPA: /ˈnu bɪl, -baɪl, ˈnyu-/

Nubile is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in nubile (beilnu).

Definitions for nubile

adjective

  1. (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
  2. (of a young person, usually a woman) sexually developed and attractive:

Origin of nubile

1635-45; Latin nūbilis, equivalent to nūb(ere) to marry (see nuptial) + -ilis -ile

Examples for nubile

Every nubile maid (koshimoto) in the yashiki was a candidate for concubinage.

She couldn't have been more than eighteen and her figure was nubile in its firm flesh and flowing contours.

I got a picture of a nubile waif, too freakish to fit where she'd been raised.

The girl's pure face was the picture of nubile candor, and her eyes met fairly the shock of the other's quick glance.

I am barely of nubile age, and yet I was not half so old on the day I saw you for the first time.

She demands flatly the Sisyphus take along at least fifty "nubile females in order to restock the world after its reconquest."

Scatter flowers, or other missile oblations, profusely, you nubile virgins.

But shall we find in France a country where the proportion of births to the number of nubile women is greater than in our own?

Such was the ideal of wifely purity in an isle where nubile virgins went naked as in paradise.

All women of that category are Nupa, or nubile, as far as this man goes.

Word Value for nubile
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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