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teen

1

[ teen ]

adjective



noun

  1. a teenager.

teen

2

[ teen ]

noun

  1. Archaic. suffering; grief.
  2. Obsolete. injury; harm.

-teen

3
  1. a suffix used to form cardinal numerals from 13 to 19.

-teen

1

combining form

  1. ten: added to modified forms of the numbers 3 to 9 to form the numbers 13 to 19


teen

2

/ tiːn /

adjective

  1. informal.
    another word for teenage

teen

3

/ tiːn /

noun

  1. obsolete.
    affliction or woe

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Derived Forms

  • -teenth, combining_form:in_adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teen1

First recorded in 1940–45; by shortening

Origin of teen2

before 1000; Middle English tene, Old English tēona; cognate with Old Frisian tiona, Old Saxon tiono, Old Norse tjōn

Origin of teen3

Middle English, Old English -tēne, combining form of ten; cognate with Dutch -tien, German -zehn

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teen1

Old English -tēne, -tӯne

Origin of teen2

Old English tēona; related to Old Saxon tiono, Old Frisian tiona injury

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Example Sentences

Yes, it was a fairly disappointing year in music—one devoid of Goth teen prodigies, Yeezy, and galvanizing rock anthems.

The reigning queen of hip-hop treads the boards in her teen years.

Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

As a teen, she wowed in films like Donnie Darko and Saved!

If the ongoing Hollywood scandal were a teen thriller from the 90s.

In the year 1819 an act of Parliament was proposed limiting the labor of children nine years of age to four-teen hours a day.

She seemed to be more like a somewhat bashful teen-ager who had been educated in a convent.

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But he vndirstondes e first figure at is in e nombur of e forsayd teen figuris, e quych is one of ese.

I once visited in a home where a teen-age girl was having one of her frequent “tragic” love experiences.

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