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Teen
Definitions
- 1 Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage not-comparable
"teen fashion"
- 1 being of the age 13 through 19 wordnet
- 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."
- 2 Grief; sorrow; trouble. archaic
"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 […]"
- 3 a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity wordnet
- 4 Vexation; anger; hate. archaic, obsolete
- 1 To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in. Devon, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
"Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd."
- 3 To become angry or distressed. obsolete, reflexive
"Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde"
Etymology
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
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.
From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.
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