noun
Meaning 1
plural of teen
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
teens
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noun
Meaning 2
The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
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noun
Meaning 3
The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- She is in her teens.
- a youngster just out of his teens
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noun
Meaning 4
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 5
The range between 10 and 19.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: rates
Topics: temperature
Examples
- Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
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noun
Meaning 6
all the numbers that end in -teen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: large integer
noun
Meaning 7
the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time of life
History
Etymology
The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Latvian: padsmiti — the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive
- Danish: teenageår — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Finnish: teini-ikä — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Hungarian: tinikorszak — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Latvian: pusaudža gadi — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Latvian: padsmitnieka gadi — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Norwegian Bokmål: tenår — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tenår — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Swedish: tonåren — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Turkish: ergenlik — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Ukrainian: підлітко́вий вік (pidlitkóvyj vik) — time of life between 13 and 19 years old
- Latvian: desmitie (10's) — second decade of a century
- Latvian: tūkstoš deviņsimt desmitie (1910's) — second decade of a century
- Latvian: divtūkstoš desmitie (2010's) — second decade of a century
- Swedish: tonåren — second decade of a century
- Ukrainian: деся́ті (desjáti) — second decade of a century
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