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juvenal

juvenal adjective: of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

Adjective

juvenal

  1. Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

Noun

juvenal (plural juvenals)

  1. A juvenal bird.
  2. (obsolete) A youth.
    • How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby...

Proper noun capitalized: Juvenal

Juvenal (countable and uncountable, plural Juvenals)

  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A surname from Latin
  3. Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal Juvenal), a Roman poet, active in the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, noted for a collection of poems called the Satires.

Forms of juvenal

Noun
pluraljuvenals
Proper noun
pluralJuvenals

Origin of juvenal

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

From Latin Iuvenālis.

Words formed from juvenal

Questions about juvenal

What does juvenal mean?
Juvenal means of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
What part of speech is juvenal?
Juvenal can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near juvenal in the dictionary

  1. juvabione
  2. Juvavian
  3. juve
  4. juvember
  5. juvembers
  6. juvenal
  7. juvenalia
  8. Juvenalian
  9. juvenals
  10. juvenaria
  11. juvenarium

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