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See also: -teen and teen-

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːn/, [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn
  • Hyphenation: teen

Etymology 1

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Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

Noun

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teen (plural teens)

  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.
    NTSB, NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Dangers of Marijuana for Teen Drivers, 18 July 2024
    • 2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:
      Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly  ...
    • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
      We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.
  2. (Internet slang, derogatory) A black teenager or a young black person.
Usage notes
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  • Of the second sense, often used sarcastically or euphemistcally to refer to black teenagers implicated in crime or wrongdoing.
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Descendants
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  • → Bulgarian: тийн (tijn)
  • → Spanish: teen

Adjective

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teen (not comparable)

  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
    teen fashion

Etymology 2

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From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

Noun

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teen (plural teens)

  1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
    Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
  2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

Verb

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teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
      Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

Etymology 4

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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.

Verb

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teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
    • 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:
      Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.
    • 1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75:
      It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”
    • 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244:
      She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

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Preposition

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teen

  1. against

Basque

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Noun

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teen

  1. genitive plural of te

Danish

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Noun

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teen c

  1. definite singular of te

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

    The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf and ui which went the opposite way.

    Noun

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    teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

    1. toe
    2. clove (of garlic)
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    • toon (dated, dialectal)
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    Etymology 2

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      From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

      Noun

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      teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

      1. twig, thin branch
        Synonym: twijg
      2. (collective) a bundle of twigs
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      The neuter gender is sometimes used for the collective sense “bundle of twigs”.

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      Dyula

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      Noun

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      teen

      1. oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
      2. the fruit of the palm tree

      Estonian

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      Verb

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      teen

      1. first-person singular present indicative of tegema

      Finnish

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      Verb

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      teen

      1. first-person singular present indicative of tehdä

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      Noun

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      teen

      1. genitive singular of tee

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Noun

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      teen m

      1. definite singular of te

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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Noun

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      teen m

      1. definite singular of te

      Spanish

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      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈtin/ [ˈt̪ĩn]
      • Rhymes: -in
      • Syllabification: teen

      Adjective

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      teen m or f (masculine and feminine plural teens)

      1. teen

      Tetum

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.

      Noun

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      teen

      1. excrement, faeces, feces

      Yucatec Maya

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      Pronoun

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      teen

      1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

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      Yucatec Maya personal pronouns
      independent clitic
      emphatic set A set B
      1st person singular teen in -en
      plural toʼon k -oʼon
      2nd person singular teech a -ech
      plural teʼex a ...-eʼex -eʼex
      3rd person singular letiʼ u -∅
      plural letiʼob u ...-oʼob -oʼob
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