TEENS

teens

(noun) all the numbers that end in -teen

teens

(noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

teens

plural of teen

teens pl (plural only)

The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.

The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.

(temperature, rates, pluralonly) The range between 10 and 19.

Anagrams

• ESnet, Enets, NEETs, Tenes, enset, neets, seent, senet, sente, steen, tense

Source: Wiktionary

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Teens, n. pl. Etym: [See Ten.]

Definition: The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

TEEN

Teen, n. Etym: [OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.]

Definition: Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

Teen, v. t. Etym: [AS. teónian, t, to slander, vex. *64. See Teen, n.]

Definition: To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Teen, v. t. Etym: [See Tine to shut.]

Definition: To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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