tween
/twiːn/
tween is the alternative spelling of 'tween.
Meaning of 'tween
Preposition
'tween
- Apheretic form of between.
- “Skunks first colonized this land in 1794. With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk. Gifts were exchanged. Treaties were struck... and broken. A feud ignited, resulting in the Battle of Skunktown.”2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (1:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Denise (Kristen Wiig)
Noun (1)
tween (plural tweens)
- An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
- Because the results of a shape tween can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the tween.2004, Andy Anderson, Mark Del Lima, Steve Johnson, Show Me Macromedia Flash MX 2004, page 237
- A tween is a method of creating animation, where you tell Flash where to start and where to end, and Flash does all the work in the middle. There are three types of tweens: Classic, Shape, and Motion.2009, Keith Butters, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Flash CS4 Professional, page 186
Verb
tween (third-person singular simple present tweens, present participle tweening, simple past and past participle tweened)
- To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
- The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.2004, D. P. Mukherjee, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, page 117
- Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation.2005, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies, page 191
Noun (2)
tween (plural tweens)
- A child, especially a girl, in the age range between middle childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.
- When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.2002 March 2, Billboard, volume 114, number 9, page 70
- This grade school thinking forgets that tweens are one of the most sophisticated groups of consumers in the marketplace, and that kids this age have zero tolerance for being treated like children.2004, Lisa Johnson, Andrea Learned, Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy--And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market, page 5
- Synonyms:
- tweenager, tweener, tweenie, betweenager, preadolescent, prepubescent, preteen, preteenager
Adjective
tween (comparative more tween, superlative most tween)
- Of or relating to tweenagers.
- I am going to describe a video that threw me into a pit of despair. It begins with a woman running into the aisle of a big-box store and telling a tween boy that she needs phone chargers.2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine
- Synonyms:
- tweenage
Noun (3)
tween (plural tweens)
- A number or age in the twenties (plural only), or a person of that age.
- At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, “2, The Shadow of the Past”, in Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring
- And although Mums don't always control the purse strings of the tweens (the younger set in their twenties), they are not entirely a forgotten influence.1960, Display World, vol. 77 p. 62
Synonyms of tween
Forms of tween
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tweens |
| alternative form | 'tween |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tweens |
| present participle | tweening |
| past participle | tweened |
| past | tweened |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more tween |
| superlative | most tween |
Origin of tween
Clipping of in between.
Blend of teen + between in the sense of "between childhood and adolescence".
Blend of twenty + teen.
Words formed from tween
Words that rhyme with tween
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about tween
- What does tween mean?
- Tween means an action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
- What is tween the alternative spelling of?
- Tween is the alternative spelling of 'tween.
- What part of speech is tween?
- Tween can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tween?
- Tween is pronounced /twiːn/.
- What is the plural of tween?
- The plural of tween is tweens.
Words near tween in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tween (page history and authors); 'tween (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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