PUBERTY


Meaning of PUBERTY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

reach

A trust is imposed on the heirs that they should manumit four slaves when the testator's children reach puberty .

Even though I had just reached puberty , Boden saw me as a Bolshevik.

And when they reach puberty they start attacking their owners.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All the unspoken mysteries of puberty tremble in the air.

As you know, a variety of physical and emotional changes take place during puberty .

But I fear that when she passes through the phalanx of middle school and puberty , that may change.

Even though I had just reached puberty , Boden saw me as a Bolshevik.

In Darcy's Utopia you will not see the eyes of the child dulling, the brow furrowing, as puberty arrives.

Life events can be developmental in nature: weaning, toilet training and puberty are examples that characterise all people's lives.

She helps the girls understand issues such as puberty , hygiene, boys, crime, and drugs.

Then one day we stumbled into puberty and found that our adolescence coincided with the struggle for national independence.

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