teen

English Online Dictionary. What means teen‎? What does teen mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tēn, IPA^(key): /tiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.

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Derived terms

Adjective

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:

     The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:

     That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

Verb

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.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
   • 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:

     Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.

References

• “teen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

See also

• teen patti

Anagrams

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• teun (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪən/

Preposition

teen

1. against

Basque

Noun

teen

1. genitive plural of te

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

teen c

1. definite singular of te

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːn/
• Hyphenation: teen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.

Noun

teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. toe
2. clove (of garlic)

Alternative forms

• toon (dated, dialectal)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toon
• Negerhollands: tee, tetsi, tetśi
• → Papiamentu: tenchi (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

Noun

teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. twig, thin branch

   Synonym: twijg

2. (collective) a bundle of twigs

Alternative forms

• tien (archaic)

Derived terms

• wilgenteen

Anagrams

• eten, neet

Dyula

Alternative forms

• ten

Noun

teen

1. oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
2. the fruit of the palm tree

Estonian

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tegema

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tehdä

Etymology 2

Noun

teen

1. genitive singular of tee

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

Anagrams

• ente, eten, neet, -enet

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

Spanish

Adjective

teen m or f (masculine and feminine plural teens)

1. teen

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.

Noun

teen

1. excrement, faeces, feces

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tèːn/

Pronoun

teen

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)