teenage
adjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ//
- United Kingdom//ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ//
Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy.
Etymology
From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
noun
- 1
obsoleteBrushwood for fences and hedges.
Etymology
From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.
teenage · Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
teenager · A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).teens · The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive).teeny · Very small; tiny.