1 [onlybeforenoun] (formal or law) connected with young people who are not yet adults:
juvenile crime / employment * juvenile offenders
2 (disapproving) silly and more typical of a child than an adult
SYNCHILDISH:
juvenile behaviour * Don't be so juvenile!
noun (formal or law) a young person who is not yet an adult:
Most of the suspects were juveniles under the age of 17.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for juvenile is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is juvenile a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, juvenile is tagged as adjective.
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