English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tēn, IPA: /tiːn/, SAMPA: /ti:n/

  Rhymes: -iːn

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Etymology 1

Back-formation from teenager.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

Translations

• See teenager.

Etymology 2

Old English tene, Anglo Saxon teóna reproach, wrong, from teón to accuse; akin to German zeihen, Gothic gateihan to tell, announce, Latin dicere to say. See token.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. (obsolete) Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - w:Geoffrey Chaucer, w:Edmund Spenser
   • 1866, Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget - Faustine, Swinburne
   • 1867, With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. - A Southern Night, w:Matthew Arnold

Etymology 3

Anglo Saxon teónian, tnan, to slander, vex. See Etymology 2 above.

Verb

to teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman

Etymology 4

See tine to shut

Verb

to teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose. - Halliwell?

References

“teen” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /'teːn/

Noun

teen m. (plural tenen, diminutive teentje)

1. (anatomy) toe

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

teen

1. First-person singular indicative present form of tehdä.

   • (Minä) teen kakkuja.
     • I make cakes.
   • Minä teen rikoksia.
     • I commit crimes.

Etymology 2

Noun

teen

1. Genitive singular form of tee.