From en.wiktionary.org:
[-teen]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [tēn] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en]. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] : a person between 13 and 19 years old .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2003 | author=James Woycke | title=Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada | publisher=FCN | isbn=9780968233238 | page=262
|passage=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 ...}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2024 | author=NTSB | title=Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
| passage= 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.
}}
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en |alternateen |clean teen |LGBTeen |preteen |stepteen |teen drama
|teendom |teenhood |teenie |teen-nap }}
***** Descendants
- [bg]
- [es]
**** Adjective
[-]
1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], [ang], [ang], from [en], from [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Grief ; sorrow ; trouble .
2. * [book=III]
3. * 1600 , [Edward Fairfax] , The _[Jerusalem Delivered]_ of [Torquato Tasso] , X, xxv:
4. *: The Soldan changed hue for grief and TEEN , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
5. * [I]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1866 | author=w:Algernon Swinburne | title=s:Faustine
|passage=Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of TEEN; / Yea, this
life likewise will you not / Forget}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1867 | author=w:Matthew Arnold | title=A Southern Night
|passage=With public toil and private TEEN Thou sank'st alone.}}
1. * 1874 , [James Thomson (B.V.)] , [The City of Dreadful Night] , XXI:
2. *: That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of TEEN and threne
3. [en] Vexation ; anger ; hate .
***** Translations
[grief, sorrow, suffering]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
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*** Etymology 3
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. [en] To become angry or distressed .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1385 | author=w:William Langland | title=Piers Plowman | section=II
|passage=Þenne TENED hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde}}
*** Etymology 4
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. [en]. Cognate
with [nl], [de]. Related to [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To close , to shut ; to enclose , to hedge or fence in. < !-- [en] -->
2. * 1874 ( 1879 ), Waugh, _Chim. Corner_ , 75:
3. *: Hie tho' off [...] or th' dur may be TEEN'D .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1919 | author=Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art | title=Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art | page=75
|passage=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?”}}
1. * [en]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Afrikaans
*** Alternative forms
- [af] [archaic]
*** Etymology
From [af], from [af], [dum], from [dum], the latter from [af], from [af].
*** Pronunciation
- [af]
- [af]
*** Preposition
[af]
1. [en]
** Basque
*** Noun
[eu]
1. [eu]
** Danish
*** Pronunciation
[da]
*** Noun
[da]
1. [da]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 1
[nl] [nl] From [nl], from [nl], from [nl], from [nl].
The modern form was originally a plural (retained in [nl]), which was
reanalysed as a singular. Compare [dum] where the same has happened, or [nl]
and [nl] which went the opposite way.
**** Noun
[m]
1. toe
2. clove (of garlic )
***** Alternative forms
- [nl]
***** Derived terms
{{col|nl |drieteenmeeuw |drieteenstrandloper |grote teen |lange tenen
|teengewricht |teennagel |teenschimmel |teenslipper |teensok |tenenkrommend
|tenenkrullend |van top tot teen }}
***** Descendants
- [af]
- [dcr]
- [pap] [from the diminutive]
*** Etymology 2
[nl] From [nl], [dum], from [nl], [odt], from [nl], from [nl].
**** Noun
[f]
1. twig , thin branch
2. [nl] a bundle of twig s
***** Usage notes
The neuter gender is sometimes for the collective sense “bundle of twigs”.
***** Alternative forms
- [nl]
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
*** Anagrams
- [nl] , [nl]
[nl] [nl]
** Dyula
*** Alternative forms
- [dyu]
*** Noun
[dyu]
1. oil palm , [Elaeis guineensis]
2. the fruit of the palm tree
[dyu]
** Estonian
*** Verb
[et]
1. [et]
** Finnish
*** Etymology 1
**** Verb
[fi]
1. [fi]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[fi]
1. [fi]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Pronunciation
[nb]
*** Noun
[nb]
1. [nb]
*** Anagrams
- [nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Noun
[nn]
1. [nn]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[tin]
*** Adjective
[pl=teens]
1. [en]
** Tetum
*** Etymology
From [tet], compare [ms].
*** Noun
[tet]
1. excrement , faeces , feces
** Yucatec Maya
*** Pronunciation
- [yua]
*** Pronoun
[yua]
1. I ( [first-person singular pronoun] )