teen
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• adjective
Relating to, characteristic of, or intended for teenagers.
"The magazine focuses on teen fashion, music, and popular culture."
• noun
A person aged between thirteen and nineteen years; a teenager.
"The community center offers after-school tutoring and sports programs for local teens."
The numbers from thirteen to nineteen, especially when referring to the years of a person's age, a decade of a century, or a temperature range (usually used in the plural).
"Overnight temperatures are expected to drop into the low teens across the northern states."
Grief, sorrow, affliction, or trouble (archaic or poetic).
"In the old ballad, the knight lamented the bitter teen that had befallen his homeland."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the early 19th century as a freestanding noun extracted from the suffix '-teen' in the cardinal numbers thirteen through nineteen, which derives from Old English '-tene' meaning 'ten more than'. An unrelated archaic homograph meaning 'grief or affliction' stems from Old English 'teona'.
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