teens en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Meanings
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(form-of, plural) plural of teen
form of teen
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(plural, plural-only) The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive).
The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
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(plural, plural-only) The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
a youngster just out of his teens
She is in her teens.
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(plural, plural-only) The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!
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(plural, plural-only, qualifier:rates) The range between 10 and 19.
Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
Deriveds
in one's teens · midteens · teenswear
Relateds
1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s · aughts · zeros · zeroes · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s · noughties · 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s · Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties · tens · 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s · 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties · 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s · '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s · oughts · oneties · 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
Translations (16)
hu tinikorszak (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · fi teini-ikä (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · lv tūkstoš deviņsimt desmitie (1910's) (second decade of a century) · lv padsmiti (the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive) · tr ergenlik (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · sv tonåren (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · nn tenår (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · nb tenår (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · lv padsmitnieka gadi (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · da teenageår (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · lv desmitie (10's) (second decade of a century) · lv divtūkstoš desmitie (2010's) (second decade of a century) · lv pusaudža gadi (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · sv tonåren (second decade of a century) · uk підлітко́вий вік (time of life between 13 and 19 years old) · uk деся́ті (second decade of a century)