Teenage Meaning
/ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
nounBrushwood for fences and hedges.
Sentence Examples
The singer is very popular with teenage fans.
That singer is a teenage idol.
She works as a volunteer counselor at a teenage crisis center.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ years were full of acne and awkward dances from age thirteen to nineteen.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She remembers her ____ years as a very happy and exciting time when she was discovering many new things about the world today.
Word Origin & History
From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel."
— 2014, John Shirley, Her Hunger:
"Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy."
— 2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ years were full of acne and awkward dances from age thirteen to nineteen.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She remembers her ____ years as a very happy and exciting time when she was discovering many new things about the world today.