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Nubile

//ˈnubaɪl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).

    ""Pretty little thing, isn't she?" said Mrs. Budge huskily, and panted two or three times. "Yes," Denis nodded agreement. Sixteen, slender, but nubile, he said to himself, and laid up the phrase in his memory as a happy one."

  2. 2
    Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
Adjective
  1. 1
    of girls or women who are eligible to marry wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A young sexually attractive woman.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.

Etymology 2

From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.

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