juvenile

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Young; not fully developed.

   “We should then be able to count on the labours of fifty thousand juvenile home missionaries, and the next generation would be able to speak from a happier experience than we, of "times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord."—From the Canada Sunday School Record.”

2. sıfat Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.

   “Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?”

3. isim A prepubescent child.
4. isim A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.

   “Every childhood seems to have exactly such a juvenile in its midst and mists. He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision.”

5. isim A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
6. isim A publication for young adult readers.

   “Formerly a publisher of juveniles, out of the market till 1959, when it will enter adult fiction field.”

7. isim An actor playing a child's role.

   “'Home,' as, following his habit of giving monosyllable titles to his pieces, T[homas] W[illiam] Robertson christened his version of 'L'Aventurière,' has been revived. […] In a juvenile part, Mr. Lytton Sothern made a successful début.”

8. isim A sexually immature animal.
9. isim A two-year-old racehorse.

   “Even more incredible is the legion of two-year-olds who win handsomely as juveniles and then disappear from the racetrack.”