word-vault/dist/data/cards/ju/juvenile.json

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{
    "term": "juvenile",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "relating to young people who are not yet adults",
            "labels": "(formal or law)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "juvenile crime/employment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "juvenile offenders"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What can be done to help these juvenile delinquents turn away from crime?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages", "Law and justice"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "relating to young birds and animals",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the prey of juvenile owls"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "silly and more typical of a child than an adult",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "juvenile behaviour"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be so juvenile!"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "childish"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒuːvənaɪl/",
                "audio": "ju/juvenile/juvenile__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒuːvənl/",
                "audio": "ju/juvenile/juvenile__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin juvenilis, from juvenis ‘young, a young person’."
}