juvenile vs person

person vs juvenile

juvenile and person both are nouns.

juvenile is an adjective but person is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
juvenile	Yes	Yes	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, person is a hypernym of juvenile; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than juvenile:

juvenile: a young person, not fully developed
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of juvenile include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

juvenile (noun)	person (noun)
a young person, not fully developed	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
	a human body (usually including the clothing)
	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

juvenile (adjective)	person (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

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