juveniles

7 definitions • 13 examples

relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to be considered an adult:

juvenile crime/offenders

He was later taken to juvenile detention for violating the terms of his parole.

affecting children rather than adults:

The following year, he was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.

juvenile arthritis

A juvenile animal is young and not fully grown:

juvenile salmon

juvenile crabs

silly and typical of a child:

juvenile behaviour

a juvenile sense of humour

He was ridiculed in a rather juvenile and at times spiteful way.

a person who is not old enough to be considered an adult:

He was still a juvenile when the crime was committed.

Some of those programs fail in that they transfer juveniles to adult correctional systems

a young animal that is not yet fully grown:

The marsh protects fish eggs and juveniles that need to evade predators until they can mature and move into open water.

of, by, or for a young person who is not yet an adult:

He studied both adult and juvenile crime.