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- [teen]
- /tin/
- /tiːn/
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- [teen]
- /tin/
Definitions of teen word
- noun teen a teenager. 1
- abbreviation TEEN teenage. 1
- noun teen teenager, adolescent 1
- noun,plural teen teenage years 1
- noun,plural teen numbers: 13-19 1
- noun plural teen If you are in your teens, you are between thirteen and nineteen years old. 0
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Origin of teen
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English tene, Old English tēona; cognate with Old Frisian tiona, Old Saxon tiono, Old Norse tjōn
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Parts of speech for Teen
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
teen popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
teen usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for teen
noun teen
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- innocents — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- kiddie — a child.
adjective teen
- youth — the condition of being young.
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