Definitions for teen

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Spelling: [teen]
IPA: /tin/

Teen is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in teen (eent).

Definitions for teen

noun

  1. Archaic. suffering; grief.
  2. Obsolete. injury; harm.
  3. a teenager.

adjective

  1. teenage.

plural noun

  1. the numbers 13 through 19, especially in a progression, as the 13th through the 19th years of a lifetime or of a given or implied century.

Origin of teen

before 1000; Middle English tene, Old English tēona; cognate with Old Frisian tiona, Old Saxon tiono, Old Norse tjōn

Examples for teen

The reigning queen of hip-hop treads the boards in her teen years.

When the girl reaches the teen age, the teacher must ask permission to call.

As a teen, she wowed in films like Donnie Darko and Saved!

Four′teen, four and ten; Four′teenth, four or the fourth after the tenth.

Little wonder the face of teen was as cadaverous as the grave.

Some had teen grazed by canister, but none seriously wounded.

The cop shot and killed Graham, later saying the teen had reached for his waistband.

Six′teen, six and ten; Six′teenth, the sixth after the tenth.

Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

If the ongoing Hollywood scandal were a teen thriller from the 90s.

Word Value for teen
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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