how to pronounce juvenile

/ˈdʒuːvənaɪl/

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juvenile is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of juvenile in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to look like a juvenile delinquent …”

meaning of juvenile

Juvenile means young, immature, or childish.

juvenile frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word juvenile occurs in english on average 5.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics juvenile can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that juvenile can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;