Maternity vs Mature - What's the difference?
maternity | mature |
The state of being a mother; motherhood.
The state of being pregnant; pregnancy.
A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born.
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
(obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To become mature; to ripen.
To gain experience or wisdom with age.
(finance) To reach the date when payment is due
As a noun maternity
is the state of being a mother; motherhood.As an adjective mature is
fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.As a verb mature is
to become mature; to ripen.maternity
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* (ward) (l)Antonyms
* (l) (with respect to gender)mature
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Adjective
(en-adj)- She is quite mature for her age.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
