teen
noun
- youth aged 13-19
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /tiːn/
adj
Etymology: Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
- Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
“teen fashion”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.
- Grief; sorrow; trouble.
“In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]”
“The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.”
- Vexation; anger; hate.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
“Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.”
“It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?””