juvenal

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adjective

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

OriginLatin iuvenālis →
UncommonScrabble 17
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Meanings

juvenal1

adjective
  1. Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
nounjuvenal (plural juvenals)

plural juvenals

  1. A juvenal bird.
  2. obsoleteA 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, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto

Juvenal2

proper nounJuvenal (countable and uncountable, plural Juvenals)

plural Juvenals

  1. countableuncountableA male given name from Latin.
  2. countableuncountableA surname from Latin
  3. countableuncountableDecimus 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.

Origin

juvenal · adjective, noun

  1. Latiniuvenālis“youthful”
  2. Englishjuvenal

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

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Juvenal · proper noun

  1. LatinIuvenālis
  2. EnglishJuvenal

From Latin Iuvenālis.

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Translations

French Juvénal, Juvénal
  • Juvénalgiven name
  • JuvénalDecimus Junius Juvenalis
Portuguese Juvenal
  • Juvenalgiven name
Spanish Juvenal
  • Juvenalgiven name
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APA

juvenal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juvenal

MLA

“juvenal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juvenal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “juvenal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juvenal.

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