Teen Meaning
/tiːn/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSynonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
nounA black teenager or a young black person.
Sentence Examples
She knew the teen.
Tom is a teen idol.
Layla started wearing the hijab in her teen years.
CEFR Practice Quiz
A ____, a person between thirteen and nineteen years old, often struggles with identity.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local community center offers several interesting programs and activities for the ____ population in the neighborhood today.
Word Origin & History
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ..."
— 2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:
"We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving."
— 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
"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 […]"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
"Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]"
— 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:
"Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget"
— 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A ____, a person between thirteen and nineteen years old, often struggles with identity.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local community center offers several interesting programs and activities for the ____ population in the neighborhood today.