Usually means: Young individual, not yet mature.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word juvenile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. juvenile: Merriam-Webster
  2. juvenile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. juvenile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. juvenile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. juvenile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Juvenile, juvenile: Wordnik
  7. juvenile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. juvenile: Wiktionary
  9. juvenile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. juvenile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. juvenile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. juvenile: Dictionary.com
  13. juvenile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. juvenile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Juvenile (animal), Juvenile (disambiguation), Juvenile (greyhounds), Juvenile (law), Juvenile (organism), Juvenile (rapper), Juvenile, The Juvenile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Juvenile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. juvenile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. juvenile: Rhymezone
  19. juvenile, juvnile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. juvenile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. juvenile: FreeDictionary.org
  22. juvenile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. juvenile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. juvenile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. juvenile: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. juvenile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. juvenile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. juvenile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Juvenile: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Juvenile: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. juvenile: Medical dictionary
  7. Juvenile: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Juvenile: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Juvenile: Gambling Glossary

(Note: See juveniles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Young; not fully developed.
adjective:  Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
noun:  A prepubescent child.
noun:  A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
noun:  (criminal law) 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.
noun:  (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
noun:  (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
noun:  (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
noun:  A two-year-old racehorse.

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