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teen en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
• (US) audio
• /ˈtiːn/

Etymology

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
   • teen fashion

teen en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
• (US) audio
• /ˈtiːn/

Etymology

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

Meanings

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
   • 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:
   • 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.
   • 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:
2. (Internet, derogatory) A black teenager or a young black person.

Forms

Deriveds

teen-sit · teener · teenigger · teen drama · teen baby · tween · subteen · postteen · preteen · teenlike · teenpreneur · midteen · pre-teen · puriteen · clean teen · teenophile · teenwear · teensploitation · teenzine · teenybopper · teenaged · teen takeover · teen-sitter · teenologist · stepteen · alternateen · LGBTeen · teenhood · teen-nap · teenie · merteen · teendom · teenspeak

Descendants

тийн · teen

Synonyms

teenager

teen en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
• (US) audio
• /ˈtiːn/

Etymology

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
   • 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:
   • With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:
   • 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:
   • That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
   • 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:
   • Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:
   • 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
2. (archaic, obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Forms

Deriveds

teenful · atene

Synonyms

harm · suffering · ill-fortune

Translations (6)

bg мъка (grief, sorrow, suffering) · ru го́ре (grief, sorrow, suffering) · ru бе́дствие (grief, sorrow, suffering) · bg скръб (grief, sorrow, suffering) · ru несча́стье (grief, sorrow, suffering) · yue 痛苦 (grief, sorrow, suffering)

teen en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
• (US) audio
• /ˈtiːn/

Etymology

From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To become angry or distressed.
   • Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:

Forms

teen en · VERB · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• [ˈtʰɪi̯n]
• (US) audio
• /ˈtiːn/

Etymology

From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

Meanings

1. (Devon, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
   • 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:
   • Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd. 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75
   • 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:

Forms

Relateds

teen patti