teenage
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tēnʹāj, IPA(key): /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: teen‧age
Adjective[edit]
teenage (not comparable)
- Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
- Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of an age between 13 and 19
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Etymology 2[edit]
From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). First attested circa 1700.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tēnʹĭj, IPA(key): /ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ/
- Hyphenation: teen‧age
Noun[edit]
teenage (uncountable)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “teenage n.”, under John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “teen, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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