See also: -teen and teen-

English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: tēn, IPA(key): /tiːn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

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Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

Noun

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teen (plural teens)

  1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
    ​In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving., NTSB, NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Dangers of Marijuana for Teen Drivers, 18 July 2024
    • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
      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.
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Adjective

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teen (not comparable)

  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
    teen fashion

Etymology 2

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From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

Noun

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teen (plural teens)

  1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
    Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
  2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (to vex, annoy, provoke), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

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teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
      Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

Etymology 4

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From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (to fence, inclose, shut, close), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (fence, enclosure). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

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teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

  1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
    • 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:
      Hie tho' off [] or th' dur may be teen'd.
    • 1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75:
      It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”
    • 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244:
      She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.

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Afrikaans

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

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Preposition

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teen

  1. against

Basque

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Noun

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teen

  1. genitive plural of te

Danish

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Particularly: “Hearing this in audio, it sounds like it has stød between the two "e"s?”

Noun

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teen c

  1. definite singular of te

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.

Noun

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teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

  1. toe
  2. clove (of garlic)
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  • toon (dated, dialectal)
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  • Afrikaans: toon
  • Negerhollands: tee, tetsi, tetśi
  • Papiamentu: tenchi (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

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teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

  1. twig, thin branch
    Synonym: twijg
  2. (collective) a bundle of twigs
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Dyula

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teen

  1. oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
  2. the fruit of the palm tree

Estonian

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teen

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tegema

Finnish

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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teen

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tehdä

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Noun

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teen

  1. genitive singular of tee

Norwegian Bokmål

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teen m

  1. definite singular of te

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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teen m

  1. definite singular of te

Spanish

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teen m or f (masculine and feminine plural teens)

  1. teen

Tetum

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.

Noun

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teen

  1. excrement, faeces, feces

Yucatec Maya

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IPA(key): /tèːn/

Pronoun

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teen

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)