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teen
1[teen]
noun
a teenager.
teen
2[teen]
noun
Archaic.suffering; grief.
Obsolete.injury; harm.
-teen
3a suffix used to form cardinal numerals from 13 to 19.
-teen
1combining form
ten: added to modified forms of the numbers 3 to 9 to form the numbers 13 to 19
teen
2/ پː /
adjective
informalanother word for teenage
teen
3/ پː /
noun
obsoleteaffliction or woe
Other Word Forms
- -teenth combining form
Word History and Origins
Origin of teen1
Origin of teen2
Word History and Origins
Origin of teen1
Origin of teen2
Example Sentences
This Teen Vogue pictorial offers a glimpse of the audience at Carpenter's concerts: teen girls and young women wearing over-the-top girl gear, all pink bows and lace lingerie, with tongues firmly planted in cheek.
Temperatures will be lower on Saturday with highs like low to mid-twenties across eastern England and high teens elsewhere.
The DCF, which reported the teen to ICE, appeared to violate its own rule by contacting ICE.
I thought Parker was decent in last year’s teen drama “Suncoast,” where she played a girl whose brother is dying of brain cancer.
Like a lot of teens, Ethan seeks guidance in the online manosphere, going down a rabbit hole of misogynistic comments about his stepmother.
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When To Use
The suffix -teen means “ten.” It is used to form cardinal numbers from 13 to 19.The form -teen comes from Old English -ŧԱ, meaning “ten.” The Latin cognate of -ŧԱ is -decim, from decem, also meaning “ten.” Find out how dozen is related to the combining form -decim at our entry for the word.
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