"puberty" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpjuː.bə.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-puberty.wav Forms: puberties [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English puberte, from Old French puberté, from Latin pūbertās (“the age of maturity, manhood”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|puberte}} Middle English puberte, {{der|en|fro|puberté}} Old French puberté, {{der|en|la|pūbertās|t=the age of maturity, manhood}} Latin pūbertās (“the age of maturity, manhood”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} puberty (countable and uncountable, plural puberties)
  1. A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Body
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  2. A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total.
    (more common) The process of sexual development that produces secondary sex characteristics and makes a person capable of reproducing sexually.
    Tags: common, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Age, Biology, Body Meronyms (process of adolescence): thelarche, pubarche, growth spurt, menarche, gonadarche, adrenarche
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  3. The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Sex Translations (age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction): ἥβη (hḗbē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ἐφηβεία (ephēbeía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), بُلُوغ (bulūḡ) [masculine] (Arabic), սեռական հասունություն (seṙakan hasunutʻyun) (Armenian), pubertá [feminine] (Asturian), палавая спеласць (palavaja spjelascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), палавое выспяванне (palavóje vyspjavannje) [neuter] (Belarusian), বয়ঃসন্ধি (boẏoḥśondhi) (Bengali), বয়ঃসন্ধিকাল (boẏoḥśondhikal) (Bengali), pubertat [feminine] (Catalan), 青春期 (qīngchūnqī) (Chinese Mandarin), 思春期 (sīchūnqī) (Chinese Mandarin), 發情 /发情 (fāqíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 發身 /发身 (fāshēn) (Chinese Mandarin), 發育期 /发育期 (fāyùqī) (Chinese Mandarin), puberta [feminine] (Czech), pubertet [common-gender] (Danish), puberteit (Dutch), pubereco (Esperanto), kynsbúning [feminine] (Faroese), pubertetur [colloquial, masculine] (Faroese), murrosikä (Finnish), puberteetti (Finnish), varhaismurrosikä (Finnish), puberté [feminine] (French), puberdade [feminine] (Galician), სქესობრივი სიმწიფე (skesobrivi simc̣ipe) (Georgian), Geschlechtsreife [feminine] (German), geschlechtsreifes Alter [neuter] (German), εφηβεία (efiveía) [feminine] (Greek), यौवनारंभ (yauvnārambh) [masculine] (Hindi), वयःसंधि (vayaḥsandhi) [feminine] (Hindi), serdülőkor (Hungarian), pubertás (Hungarian), usia pancaroba (Indonesian), pubesens (Indonesian), pubertà [feminine] (Italian), 思春期 (shishunki) (alt: ししゅんき) (Japanese), ភាពពេញវ័យ (phiəppɨñvɨy) (Khmer), 사춘기 (sachun'gi) (alt: 思春期) (Korean), pūbertās [feminine] (Latin), пубертет (pubertet) [masculine] (Macedonian), baligh (Malay), puberti (Malay), pūhuruhurutanga (Maori), पौगंडावस्था (paugaṇḍāvasthā) [neuter] (Marathi), temenê pêgihîştînê (Northern Kurdish), temenê xwenasînê (Northern Kurdish), pubertet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pubertet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), dojrzewanie płciowe [neuter] (Polish), pokwitanie [common-gender] (Polish), okres dojrzewania [masculine] (Polish), puberdade [feminine] (Portuguese), pubertate [feminine] (Romanian), полова́я зре́лость (polovája zrélostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), полово́е созрева́ние (polovóje sozrevánije) [neuter] (Russian), वयःसंधि (vayaḥsaṃdhi) [masculine] (Sanskrit), pubertet (Serbo-Croatian), pubertad [feminine] (Spanish), pubertet [common-gender] (Swedish), mulansuplingan (Tagalog), ความเป็นหนุ่มสาว (Thai), วัยแรกรุ่น (Thai), ergenlik dönemi (Turkish), статева зрілість (stateva zrilistʹ) (Ukrainian), dậy thì (Vietnamese), glasoed [masculine] (Welsh), blaenaeddfedrwydd [masculine] (Welsh)
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  4. The period when a plant begins to flower. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Body
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: delayed puberty, precocious puberty, puberty blocker, puberty inhibitor, second puberty Translations (developmental phase): Geschlechtsreifung [feminine] (German), Reifezeit [feminine] (German), Pubertät [feminine] (German)
Disambiguation of 'developmental phase': 49 49 1 1

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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pubertate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polovája zrélostʹ",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полова́я зре́лость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polovóje sozrevánije",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "полово́е созрева́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "vayaḥsaṃdhi",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "वयःसंधि"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "pubertet"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pubertad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pubertet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "mulansuplingan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "ความเป็นหนุ่มสาว"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "วัยแรกรุ่น"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "ergenlik dönemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stateva zrilistʹ",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "статева зрілість"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "word": "dậy thì"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glasoed"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blaenaeddfedrwydd"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "puberty"
  ],
  "word": "puberty"
}

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