teenage

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Aged between 13 and 19 years old.

   Their teenage daughter just started high school.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to the years when someone is a teenager.

   His teenage years were the happiest of his life.

Common collocations

• teenage boy Adjective + noun
• teenage girl Adjective + noun
• teenage son Adjective + noun

From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.

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