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Princeton's WordNet

  1. adolescent, stripling, teenager, teenadjective

    a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

  2. adolescent, teen, teenage, teenagedadjective

    being of the age 13 through 19

    "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"

Wiktionary

  1. teennoun

    A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

  2. teennoun

    Grief, sorrow; suffering.

  3. teenverb

    To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Teennoun

    Sorrow; grief.

    Etymology: tinan , Saxon, to kindle; tenen, Flemish, to vex; teonan , Saxon, injuries.

    Arrived there
    That barehead knight, for dread and doleful teen
    Would fain have fled, ne durst approachen near. Fa. Qu.

    Fry not in heartless grief and doleful teen. Edmund Spenser.

    My heart bleeds
    To think o’ th’ teene that I have turn’d you to. William Shakespeare.

    Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
    And each hour’s joy wreck’d with a week of teen. William Shakespeare.

  2. To Teenverb

    To excite; to provoke to do a thing. Edmund Spenser

    Etymology: from tinan , to kindle, Saxon.

Wikipedia

  1. Teen

    Adolescence (from Latin adolescere 'to mature') is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later. Puberty now typically begins during preadolescence, particularly in females. Physical growth (particularly in males) and cognitive development can extend past the teens. Age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have not agreed upon a precise definition. Some definitions start as early as 10 and end as late as 25 or 26. The World Health Organization definition officially designates an adolescent as someone between the ages of 10 and 19.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Teennoun

    grief; sorrow; affiction; pain

  2. Teennoun

    to excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure

  3. Teenverb

    to hedge or fence in; to inclose

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Teen

    tēn, n. (arch.) grief, affliction, injury. [A.S. teóna, reproach, injury.]

  2. Teen

    tēn, v.t. (Spens.) to excite, provoke. [A.S. týnan, to irritate, vex.]

  3. Teen

    tēn, v.t. (Spens.) to allot, bestow.

Editors Contribution

  1. teen

    Your mark of age forming the names of numerals from 13 to 19. 1.) of relating to a teenager.

    I can sense that I would soon become a man after my teen years.

    Etymology: Young male or female


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 23, 2024  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of teen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of teen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of teen in a Sentence

  1. Ulish Carter:

    Black people will get extremely fired up and fight for a Trayvon Martin (the black teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida) or any time a white person kills a black person, or police kill a black person. You got rallies and marches and protests, you get your national leaders involved, but all these situations with blacks killing blacks, you're just as dead.

  2. Stephanie Samar:

    The more you present with curiosity and remove judgment, the more you’re getting out of your teen as to why they’re interested in this.

  3. Montana Department of Fish:

    When the bear let go, the teen fell over and attempted to crawl between two trees and protect his head and vitals. The bear then pinned him face-down on the ground.

  4. Greg Fischer:

    And a teen that should be at school today will not be there, and will never be there again.

  5. Alexandra Hamlet:

    While some parents may believe that their teen can handle the removal of various pictures without help, I do suggest that they still have conversations about values and how they tie into image online, they could be missing out on a great opportunity to help their teen to build insight and assertiveness skills.

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