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JUVENILE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juvenile person mean? 

JUVENILE PERSON (noun)
  The noun JUVENILE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a young person, not fully developedplay

  Familiarity information: JUVENILE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JUVENILE PERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person, not fully developed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

juvenile; juvenile person

Hypernyms ("juvenile person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Meronyms (parts of "juvenile person"):

juvenile body (the body of a young person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "juvenile person"):

preteen; preteenager (a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age))

adolescent; stripling; teen; teenager (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

ingenue (an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage))

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))


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