Word Study
teen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teen has 1 sense
- teen(n = noun.person) adolescent, stripling, teenager - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity; Array is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: chebab, mod, pachuco, punk, punk rocker, rocker, young buck, young man
Adjective teen has 1 sense
- teen(s = adj.all) adolescent, teenage, teenaged - being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
CIDE DICTIONARY
teen, n. [OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.].
Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. Chaucer. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
"With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone." [1913 Webster]
Thou sank'st alone." [1913 Webster]
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
teen, v. t. [See Tine to shut.].
To hedge or fence in; to inclose. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
teen, n.
a teenager. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
teen, adj. & n.
--adj. = TEENAGE.
--n. = TEENAGER.
--adj. = TEENAGE.
--n. = TEENAGER.
Etymology
abbr. of TEENAGE, TEENAGER
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