Teen
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Back-formation from teenager.
Noun
Teen (plural Teens)- A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.
Translations
- See teenager.
Etymology 2
Middle English tene, from Old English teōna reproach, wrong, from teōn to accuse; akin to German zeihen, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to tell, announce”), Latin dīcere to say. See token.
Noun
Teen (plural Teens)- (archaic) Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser
- 1866, Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget - Faustine, Swinburne
- 1867, With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. - A Southern Night, Matthew Arnold
- 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
Etymology 3
From Old English teónian, tnan (“to slander, vex”). See Etymology 2 above.
Verb
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. - Piers Plowman
Etymology 4
See tine to shut
Verb
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. - Halliwell?
References
- Teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
Teen c.
- singular definite of te
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
Teen m. (plural tenen, diminutive teentje, diminutive plural teentjes)
Synonyms
- (twig): twijg
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology 1
Verb
Teen
- First-person singular present indicative form of tehdä.
Etymology 2
Noun
teen
- genitive singular form of teear:teen
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