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teen

/ˈtiːn/

teen noun: synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).

Noun (1)

teen (plural teens)

  1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
    • In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving.
    • Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262
    Synonyms:
    teenager
  2. (Internet, derogatory) A black teenager or a young black person.

Adjective

teen (not comparable)

  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
    • teen fashion

Noun (2)

teen (plural teens)

  1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
    • In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv
  2. (archaic, obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Verb (1)

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. (obsolete, reflexive) To become angry or distressed.
    • Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herdec. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II

Verb (2)

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (Devon, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
    • Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75
    • It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75

teen meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

teen in Tamil

பதின்ம வயதினன், ள்

teen in Urdu

درد, غم, غصہ, تکلیف

teen in Bengali

দুর্দশা, দুর্ভাগ্য

Examples of teen in a sentence

  • We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
  • Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...
  • Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:
  • With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:

All 40 example sentences with teen

Synonyms of teen

Forms of teen

Noun
pluralteens
Verb
third-person singular presentteens
present participleteening
past participleteened
pastteened

Plural of teen: teens

Origin of teen

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

Words formed from teen

Phrases with teen

Words that rhyme with teen

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Questions about teen

What does teen mean?
Teen means synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
What is teen in Tamil?
Teen in Tamil is பதின்ம வயதினன், ள். See Teen meaning in Tamil.
How do you use teen in a sentence?
We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.
What part of speech is teen?
Teen can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce teen?
Teen is pronounced /ˈtiːn/.
What is the plural of teen?
The plural of teen is teens.

Words near teen in the dictionary

  1. teemingness
  2. teemless
  3. teems
  4. teems down
  5. teems with
  6. teen
  7. teen babies
  8. teen baby
  9. teen drama
  10. teen dramas
  11. teen patti

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: teen (page history and authors); teen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teen (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teen (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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