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adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable or intended for young persons: juvenile books.
2.
young; youthful: juvenile years.
3.
immature; childish; infantile: His juvenile tantrums are not in keeping with his age.
noun
4.
a young person; youth.
5.
Theater.
a.
a youthful male or female role.
b.
an actor or actress who plays such parts.
6.
a book for children.
7.
Ornithology. a young bird in the stage when it has fledged, if altricial, or has replaced down of hatching, if precocial.
8.
a two-year-old racehorse.
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Juveniles
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
juvenile
1625, from L. juvenilis "of or belonging to youth," from juvenis "young person," originally "young" (see young). Hence juvenilia "works of a person's youth" (1622). Juvenile delinquency first recorded 1816.
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