Teen

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Transitive verb 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Transitive verb 1.6 References 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun

English

Pronunciation

• tēn, /tiːn/, /ti:n/

  Rhymes: -iːn

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Etymology 1

Backformation from teenager

Noun

teen (teens)

1. a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

Translations

• See teenager.

Etymology 2

Old English tene, Anglo Saxon teóna reproach, wrong, from teón to accuse; akin to German zeihen, Gothic gateihan to tell, announce, Latin dicere to say. See token

Noun

1. (Archaic): Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - w:Geoffrey Chaucer, w:Edmund Spenser
   • 1866: Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget - Faustine, Swinburne
   • 1867: With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. - A Southern Night, w:Matthew Arnold

Etymology 3

Anglo Saxon teónian, tnan, to slander, vex. See Etymology 2 above

Transitive verb

1. (Obsolete): To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. - Piers Plowman

Etymology 4

See Tine to shut

Transitive verb

1. (Provincial): To hedge or fence in; to inclose. - Halliwell?

References

• Webster 1913

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /'teːn/

Noun

teen m (plural: tenen, diminutive: teentje, plural diminutive: teentjes

1. toefr:teen

id:teen nl:teen