Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A preteen.

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  • noun A person of somewhat less than 13 years of age

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  • noun a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ teenager

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Examples

  • While a preteenager might be convinced she'll die without that $6 Hannah Montana three-ring binder, a basic unadorned $2 binder serves the same purpose and can be used long after Hannah has been replaced by the next pop idol.

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  • While a preteenager might be convinced she'll die without that $6 Hannah Montana three-ring binder, a basic unadorned $2 binder serves the same purpose and can be used long after Hannah has been replaced by the next pop idol.

    3 ways to save money on school supplies 2009

  • Yet through the eyes of a preteenager, this was a curse.

    Family Resemblances 2008

  • Anyone with a teenager or preteenager knows that most children covet the kinds of phones adults have.

    NYT > Technology 2010

  • If you were a preteenager in the 1950s and had precocious friends or a with-it dad, it's a good cartoonist Johnny Hart died more than two years ago, many feared that his strips of spiritually probing prehistoric cavemen and talking Essay suite taps sons of Cheever, McCourt — and the Unabomber's sibling (Jupiter Images)

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  • Between us we’ve shown up with grandchildren, broken hips, shingles, postpartum depression, preteenager depression, postdivorce depression—you name it, we’ve gone through it.

    What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006

  • Between us we’ve shown up with grandchildren, broken hips, shingles, postpartum depression, preteenager depression, postdivorce depression—you name it, we’ve gone through it.

    What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006

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