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Teen

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Noun

1. adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager

a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

Adjective

2. adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged

being of the age 13 through 19

Example Sentences:
'teenage mothers'
'the teen years'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Teen

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adjective
informal another word for teenage
noun
obsolete
affliction or woe

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Teen

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noun
1.  [pl.]
a. 
the years from thirteen through nineteen (of a century or of a person's age)
b. 
the numbers from thirteen through nineteen
2. 
teenager
adjective
3. 
teenage
noun Chiefly Dialectal
1. 
injury or harm
2. 
anger; wrath
3. 
grief or suffering

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Teen

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n.
1. teens
a. The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
b. The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale: The temperature was in the low teens.
c. The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life: students in their teens.
2. A teenager.
adj.
Teenage.
n.
Archaic
Misery; grief.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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