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juvenile

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 young; not fully developed 2 characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish n. 1 a prepubescent child 2 a person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence 3 an animal that is not sexually mature 4 an actor playing a ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\ (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juv['e]nile, juv['e]nil. See Young .] Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. ``A juvenile exercitation.'' --Glanvill. Of or pertaining ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Juvenile means Child or young person, or childish. It may also refer to: Juvenile status, or minor (law) , prior to adulthood Juvenile delinquency Juvenile (rapper) (born 1975), American musician Juvenilia , works by a young author Juvenile novel Any of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin iuvenilis "of or belonging to youth," from iuvenis "young person," originally "young" (compare French jeune ; see young ). Juvenile delinquency first recorded 1816; Juvenile delinquent the following year.

Usage examples of juvenile.

It was her pet project, the prototype of several other homes for juveniles that she hinted The Foundation might be able to finance with the generous bequest she might leave us.

Because of his juvenile status, his mother was brought to the police station where he had been taken, and in her presence, Doil was questioned by detectives.

As it was, after Doil became an of ficial adult at eighteen, he used his street smarts acquired as a juvenile to continue his criminal ways.

After today, paleontologists could publish their work, talk about it in public, show footage of a juvenile triceratops being mobbed by dromaeosaurs, sign movie contracts, make public appeals for funding, become media stars.

Chainmail things were different to the extent that the four-year-old hurdler was unstable to begin with, and what I was doing to him was much like urging a juvenile delinquent to go mugging.

During interview, Subject admits that while a juvenile he was the Subject of two station ad150 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS justments for shoplifting, and one for destruction of wildlife.

Michel, who was somewhat keen on space war at least as it was fought in the juvenile adventure booksand considered himself a well-informed layperson on the subject, estimated the risks as somewhat lower.

Juvenile and mawkish, self-pitying and full of grand assumptions about my own significance and declarations of things that I would never do again were these treatises.

Juvenile faces, mouths open, tongues licking stained lips, teeth clamping on narcos, eyes glittering through enlargement lenses.

Still reigns and triumphs, as he hath triumphed and reigned Since in the dim blue dawn of time The universal ebb-and-flow began, To sound his ancient music, and prevails, By the persuasion of his mighty rhyme, Here in this radiant and immortal street Lavishly and omnipotently as ever In the open hills, the undissembling dales, The laughing-places of the juvenile earth.

Anyway, when confronted with the thumbprint he copped to being Raynard Waits, saying he had given the false name and year because he was hoping to be handled as a juvenile.

That truancy was to a great extent responsible for these juvenile delinquents was proved by the fact that more then one-half of the lads sent to Magill had committed the crimes for which they were first convicted while truanting.

The train then went off for Pool Quay at a smart pace, considering that the rails were unballasted, and with the trucks loaded with juveniles, many of whom perhaps had this day their first trip by railway.

He was a harried-looking juvenile affray expert who defended me, not unhandily, in a minor organic damage suit involving a Newpest police officer.

Chief Inspector van der Valk of the Amsterdamse juvenile bureau, who is conducting the preliminary investigation, has refused to say more at present, stating that the affair is not yet a judicial enquiry, but it is believed that he is confident of rolling up this band of marauders.