juvenilia
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 25
- Letters
- 9
/ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/
Definition of juvenilia
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(plural, plural-only)Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
“...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...”
“Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.”
“Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]”
“The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).
Words you can make from juvenilia
116 playable · top: JAVELIN (17 pts)
Best play javelin 17 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
9 words5-letter words
19 words4-letter words
44 words- JIVE 14 pts
- JAIL 11 pts
- JANE 11 pts
- JEAN 11 pts
- EVIL 7 pts
- LAVE 7 pts
- LEVA 7 pts
- LIVE 7 pts
- NAVE 7 pts
- NEVI 7 pts
- ULVA 7 pts
- UVEA 7 pts
- VAIL 7 pts
- VAIN 7 pts
- VALE 7 pts
- VANE 7 pts
- VEAL 7 pts
- VEIL 7 pts
- VEIN 7 pts
- VELA 7 pts
- VENA 7 pts
- VIAL 7 pts
- VILE 7 pts
- VINA 7 pts
- VINE 7 pts
- VLEI 7 pts
- VULN 7 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ELAN 4 pts
- ILEA 4 pts
- ILIA 4 pts
- INIA 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
- LEAN 4 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIEU 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LUNA 4 pts
- LUNE 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- ULAN 4 pts
- ULNA 4 pts
- UNAI 4 pts
3-letter words
29 words2-letter words
13 wordsHooks
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