teen
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
NounEdit
teen (plural teens)
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AdjectiveEdit
teen (not comparable)
- Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
- teen fashion
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.
NounEdit
teen (plural teens)
- (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
- Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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 […]
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:
- The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
- 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:
- Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:
- With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:
- That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
- (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.
VerbEdit
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
- (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Etymology 4Edit
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.
VerbEdit
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
- (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.
- 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:
ReferencesEdit
- teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- teun (archaic)
EtymologyEdit
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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teen
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DanishEdit
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teen c
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
Alternative formsEdit
- toon (dated, dialectal)
Derived termsEdit
- drieteenstrandloper
- grote teen
- lange tenen
- teengewricht
- teennagel
- teenschimmel
- teensok
- van top tot teen
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.
NounEdit
teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
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- tien (archaic)
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NounEdit
teen
- oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
- the fruit of the palm tree
EstonianEdit
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teen
FinnishEdit
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teen
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teen
Norwegian BokmålEdit
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teen m
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
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teen m
SpanishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
teen (plural teens)
TetumEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.
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teen
WestrobothnianEdit
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teen (preterite tenä)
- (intransitive) thaw, melt