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• Juvenal
  Juvenal

  noun

  Decimus Junius Juvenalis, a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
• juvenal
  juvenal

  adjective

  ornithol a variant spelling (esp US) of juvenile

Juvenal

American  

[joo-vuh-nl] / ˈdʒu və nl /

noun

1. Decimus Junius Juvenalis, a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.

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Juvenal ¹ British  

/ ˈdʒuːvɪnəl /

noun

1. Latin name Decimus Junius Juvenalis. ?60–?140 _ad , Roman satirist. In his 16 verse satires, he denounced the vices of imperial Rome

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juvenal ² British  

/ ˈdʒuːvɪnəl /

adjective

1. ornithol a variant spelling (esp US) of juvenile

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Other Word Forms

• Juvenalian adjective

Example Sentences

Juvenal was a satirist, she says, not an objective reporter; he may have been wryly speculating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Juvenal Rodriguez and his wife were jolted into alarm as well, but Mateo, also a second-grader, was unimpressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for the extravagant entertainment the Roman Empire used to distract attention from imperial policies that caused widespread discontent.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

Dairo Juvenal Mucutuy, another uncle, told local media that one of kids said he wanted to start walking.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023

There remains on our list only one Latin volume, the third part of Professor Mayor’s Juvenal for Schools, containing Satires X. and XI.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various