Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

juvenalia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ju-ve-na-lia
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Items connected with children, such as toys, dolls, teddy bears, etc.

noun

Misspelling of juvenilia.

Example Sentences

"But enough nurse-angel pins, scrubs imprinted with hearts and teddy bears, coffee cups bearing cute child-nurse images and stuffed animals representing nurses show up in the nursing workplace to keep the juvenalia market alive."
"[…]– Peter’s love for juvenalia, primarily toy theatres. He adored them, he collected them and he even had a shop in London’s Covent Garden selling them."
"Ed is the resident Toys, Trains and Juvenalia Specialist for the auctioneer."
"All his previous compositions he now considered juvenalia or wrong starts buried too deeply in the harmonies of hyperromanticism."
"Sir, I quite agree with Professor Ricks of Boston University (report. July 7) that the unpublished early poems of T. S. Eliot should not be dismissed as “juvenalia” (sic)."
"Composers like Debussy seem to have forgotten their juvenalia or else underestimated the zeal of modern musicology."

Etymology

From juven(ile) + -alia.

Questions

What does juvenalia mean?: Items connected with children, such as toys, dolls, teddy bears, etc.
Where does juvenalia come from?: From juven(ile) + -alia.

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