Associations to the word «Juvenal»

Wiktionary

JUVENAL, adjective. Of a young bird, that has its first flying plumage.
JUVENAL, noun. A juvenal bird.
JUVENAL, noun. (obsolete) A juvenile.

Dictionary definition

JUVENAL, noun. Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats