Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Misery; grief.
- noun The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
- noun The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale.
- noun The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life.
- noun A teenager.
- adjective Teenage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grieve; afflict; reflexively, to be vexed.
- To inclose; make a fence round.
- noun Grief; sorrow; trouble; ill fortune; harm.
- noun Vexation; anger; hate.
- A suffix used in the cardinal numerals from
thirteen to nineteen, meaning ‘ten,’ and expressing in these numerals ten more than the amount indicated by the initial element. - To allot; bestow.
- A corruption of teend for tind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a
teenager . - transitive verb Prov. Eng. To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
- noun Archaic Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
- transitive verb obsolete To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
teenager , a person between 13 and 19 years old. - verb transitive, obsolete To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman
- noun archaic
Grief ,sorrow ;suffering . - verb transitive, obsolete, provincial To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being of the age 13 through 19
- noun a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She plays field hockey; watches "mindless" her word teen television favorites
Moving the Chains 2011
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We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him).
Cinematical 2010
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We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him).
Cinematical Peter Hall 2010
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Lance Kerwin, who played the title teen in the 1970s-era series, received credit for time served and was sentenced to five years 'probation for falsifying information on an application to get state-provided medical benefits and food stamps on the island of
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Bad decisions are part of what being a teen is about.
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# Danon 21 Sep 2009 at 3: 56 pm the teen to adult and adult to teen is too cliche in superhero titles … and far too cheezy. its the typical argument between the hero and the sidekick about who has it rougher … Been there.
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In fact, the teen is the background on the cover of Wicked Lovely.
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Gord Pladson, who pitched 20 games for the Houston Astros from 1979-82 and coaches against Loewen, says the teen is the real deal.
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This means doing things like bringing in teen sensations Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner to present.
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After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
Star Wars Fan Filmmaker’s First Feature Film, Imprint, Hits Stores Tuesday | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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