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teenage

Syllables: teen·ageUK/ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/

teenage adjective: of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

Adjective

teenage (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
    • It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.2014, John Shirley, Her Hunger

Noun

UK/ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ/

teenage (uncountable)

  1. (Kent, dialectal, obsolete) Brushwood for fences and hedges.
    Synonyms:
    teenet

teenage meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

teenage in Tamil

பதின்பருவம், பதினகவை, பதின்ம வயது

teenage in Marathi

किशोरवयीन

teenage in Bengali

কিশোর, কৈশোরপ্রাপ্ত

teenage in Telugu

టీనేజ్
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teenage in Malayalam
കൗമാരപ്രായമായ, യൗവനം പ്രാപിച്ച, യുവാനക, യുവന്യു
teenage in Kannada
ಹದಿಹರೆಯ, ಹದಿಹರೆಯದ, ಹದಿವಯಸ್ಸಿನ, ನವಯೌವನದ
teenage in Punjabi
ਕਿਸ਼ੋਰ

Examples of teenage in a sentence

  • Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.
  • He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.
  • He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.

All 40 example sentences with teenage

Synonyms of teenage

  • teenet

Forms of teenage

alternative formteen-age
alternative formteen age
alternative formteenaged

Origin of teenage

From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.

Words formed from teenage

Questions about teenage

What does teenage mean?
Teenage means of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
What is teenage in Tamil?
Teenage in Tamil is பதின்பருவம், பதினகவை, பதின்ம வயது. See Teenage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is teenage?
Teenage can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce teenage?
Teenage is pronounced /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).

Words near teenage in the dictionary

  1. teen-sits
  2. teen-sitter
  3. teen-sitters
  4. teen-sitting
  5. Teena
  6. teenage
  7. teenaged
  8. teenagedom
  9. teenagehood
  10. teenageness
  11. teenager

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: teenage (page history and authors); teenage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teenage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teenage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teenage (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teenage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); teenage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); teenage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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