Meaning of TEEN
Pronunciation: | | teen
|
WordNet Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | [adj] being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" |
|
| Websites: | | |
|
| Synonyms: | | adolescent, immature, teenage, teenaged, young |
|
|
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | |
\Teen\, n. [OE. tene, AS. te['o]na reproach, wrong, fr.
te['o]n to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell,
announce, L. dicere to say. See {Token}.]
Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Spenser.
With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
--M. Arnold.
\Teen\, v. t. [AS. te['o]nian, t?nan, to slander, vex.
[root]64. See {Teen}, n.]
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.
\Teen\, v. t. [See {Tine} to shut.]
To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
|
|
|
|