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puberty

Definition

  • noun: the period of life when a person's sexual organs mature and he or she becomes able to have children
  • noun: the condition of being or the period of becoming first capable of reproducing sexually marked by maturing of the genital organs, development of secondary sex characteristics, and in the human and in higher primates by the first occurrence of menstruation in the female

Examples

  • He reached/entered 'puberty' later than most of his classmates.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) l mean, l work in the city in a job l don't understand, and everyone keeps getting promoted above me. l haven't had a girlfriend since-- well, since puberty. And... nobody fancies me. And if these cheeks get any chubbier, they never will. - Nonsense. l fancy you. - Really ? (..)
    1999 Notting Hill