teenage

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• Received-Pronunciation: tēnʹāj
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: tēnʹĭj
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ/
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• CMU ARPABET: T IY1 N EY2 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: юношески (junošeski) — of an age between 13 and 19
• Catalan: adolescent — of an age between 13 and 19
• Danish: teenage — of an age between 13 and 19
• Esperanto: adoleska — of an age between 13 and 19
• Finnish: teini-ikäinen — of an age between 13 and 19
• French: adolescent — of an age between 13 and 19
• Norwegian Bokmål: tenårig — of an age between 13 and 19
• Norwegian Bokmål: tenårings- — of an age between 13 and 19
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tenårig — of an age between 13 and 19
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tenårings- — of an age between 13 and 19
• Polish: nastoletni — of an age between 13 and 19
• Russian: подростко́вый (podrostkóvyj) — of an age between 13 and 19
• Spanish: adolescente — of an age between 13 and 19
• Swedish: tonårig — of an age between 13 and 19
• Welsh: yn ei arddegau — of an age between 13 and 19