Meaning

Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
2. (Internet slang, derogatory) A black teenager or a young black person.
3. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
4. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
5. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
7. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
8. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.

Example Sentences

In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving.

Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...

We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

teen fashion

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

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

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 […]

Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]

Word Forms

• teens
• teening
• teened

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Use teen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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