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/ˈtwiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/ · noun
A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally ten to twelve years old..
Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”
Use tweenager when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tweenager means A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally ten to twelve years old..
Common synonyms include preteen.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”
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