teen

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being of the age 13 through 19

   teenage mothers

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   teen fashion

4. 4
   noun

   Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]

5. 5
   verb

   To become angry or distressed.

   Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

6. 6
   verb

   To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.

   Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.

7. 7
   noun

   a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

8. 8
   noun

   A black teenager or a young black person.

Etymology

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.