juvenile person

Other forms: juvenile persons

Definitions of juvenile person

1. noun

   a young person, not fully developed
   synonyms: juvenile

   types:

   preteen, preteenager

   a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)

   adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager

   a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

   child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster

   a young person of either sex

   ingenue

   an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)

   spring chicken, young person, younker, youth

   a young person (especially a young man or boy)

   bairn

   a child: son or daughter

   blade

   a dashing young man

   buster

   a robust child

   changeling

   a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy

   child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, wunderkind

   a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age

   foster child, foster-child, fosterling

   a child who is raised by foster parents

   hobbledehoy

   an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

   imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp

   one who is playfully mischievous

   kiddy

   a young child

   mod

   a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers

   orphan

   a child who has lost both parents

   pachuco

   a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes

   peanut

   a young child who is small for his age

   poster child

   a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes

   kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler

   a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten

   punk, punk rocker

   a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture

   pup, puppy

   an inexperienced young person

   rocker

   a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles

   pupil, school-age child, schoolchild

   a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

   silly

   a word used for misbehaving children

   slip

   a young and slender person

   sprog

   a child

   bambino, toddler, tot, yearling

   a young child

   urchin

   a poor and often mischievous city child

   street child, waif

   a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

   young buck, young man

   a teenager or a young adult male

   waif

   a person, especially a young woman, who is extremely thin

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being