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Teenage

//ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old. not-comparable

    "Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being of the age 13 through 19 wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Brushwood for fences and hedges. Kent, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

Etymology 2

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

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