Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
- noun The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale.
- noun The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life.
- noun A teenager.
- adjective Teenage.
- noun Misery; grief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A corruption of teend for tind.
- To grieve; afflict; reflexively, to be vexed.
- To inclose; make a fence round.
- To allot; bestow.
- noun Grief; sorrow; trouble; ill fortune; harm.
- noun Vexation; anger; hate.
- A suffix used in the cardinal numerals from
thirteen to nineteen, meaning ‘ten,’ and expressing in these numerals ten more than the amount indicated by the initial element.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
- transitive verb obsolete To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
- noun a
teenager . - transitive verb Prov. Eng. To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
Grief ,sorrow ;suffering . - verb transitive, obsolete To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman
- verb transitive, obsolete, provincial To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
- noun A
teenager , a person between 13 and 19 years old.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being of the age 13 through 19
- noun a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She plays field hockey; watches "mindless" her word teen television favorites
Moving the Chains 2011
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We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him).
Cinematical 2010
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We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him).
Cinematical Peter Hall 2010
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Lance Kerwin, who played the title teen in the 1970s-era series, received credit for time served and was sentenced to five years 'probation for falsifying information on an application to get state-provided medical benefits and food stamps on the island of
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Bad decisions are part of what being a teen is about.
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# Danon 21 Sep 2009 at 3: 56 pm the teen to adult and adult to teen is too cliche in superhero titles … and far too cheezy. its the typical argument between the hero and the sidekick about who has it rougher … Been there.
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In fact, the teen is the background on the cover of Wicked Lovely.
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Gord Pladson, who pitched 20 games for the Houston Astros from 1979-82 and coaches against Loewen, says the teen is the real deal.
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This means doing things like bringing in teen sensations Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner to present.
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After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
Star Wars Fan Filmmaker’s First Feature Film, Imprint, Hits Stores Tuesday | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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