teen

plural teens

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).

   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.

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   Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...

   2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262

   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.

   2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022

   Synonyms: teenager

2. InternetderogatoryA black teenager or a young black person.

1. not comparableOf or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   teen fashion

plural teens

1. archaicGrief; sorrow; trouble.

   With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.

   1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night

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   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 […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv

   Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]

   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

   She entereth with mickle teen; Within it light ne found she none; Thorow it still she goeth on, Until she from the hill issued In a fair meadow, rich and good.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 212

   Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget

   1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

2. archaicobsoleteVexation; anger; hate.

present singular third person teens · participle present teening · participle past teened · past teened

1. obsoletetransitiveTo excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. obsoletereflexiveTo become angry or distressed.

   Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

   c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II

present singular third person teens · participle present teening · participle past teened · past teened

1. DevondialectalobsoletetransitiveTo close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.

   Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.

   1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75

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   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?”

   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

   She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.

   1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244