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teen

1  [teen] ,
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–noun
1. Archaic. suffering; grief.
2. Obsolete. injury; harm.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME tene, OE tēona; c. OFris tiona, OS tiono, ON tjōn

teen

2  [teen] ,
–adjective
1. teenage.
–noun
2. a teenager.
Origin:
1940–45; by shortening

-teen

 
a suffix used to form cardinal numerals from 13 to 19.
Origin:
ME, OE -tēne, comb. form of ten; c. D -tien, G -zehn

teens

  [teenz] ,
–plural noun
the numbers 13 through 19, esp. in a progression, as the 13th through the 19th years of a lifetime or of a given or implied century.
Origin:
1595–1605; teen (extracted from numbers with -teen as final element) + -s 3
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teen 1   (tēn)   
n.  

  1. teens

    1. The numbers 13 through 19.

    2. The 13th through 19th items in a series or scale, as years of a century or degrees of temperature.

  2. A teenager.

adj.  Teenage.
teen 2   (tēn)   
n.   Archaic
Misery; grief.

[Middle English tene, from Old English tēona.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

-teen 
combining form meaning "ten more than," from O.E. -tene, -tiene, from P.Gmc. *tekhuniz (cf. O.S. -tein, Du. -tien, O.H.G. -zehan, Ger. -zehn, Goth. -taihun), an inflected form of the root of ten; cognate with L. -decim (cf. It. -dici, Sp. -ce, Fr. -ze). The combining form of ordinal numbers, -teenth, developed from O.E. -teoða, -teoðe (W.Saxon), teogoða (Anglian) "tenth."

teens 
1673 (plural), formed from -teen, taken as a separate word.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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