teen
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager.
NounEdit
teen (plural teens)
- A teenager.
AdjectiveEdit
teen (not comparable)
- Of or having to do with teenagers.
- teen fashion
TranslationsEdit
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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto V:
- 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, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 slander, vex”), 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
See tine (“to shut”).
VerbEdit
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
ReferencesEdit
- teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.
PrepositionEdit
teen
DanishEdit
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
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)
Alternative formsEdit
- tien (archaic)
