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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.
Noun
teen (plural teens)
- Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.
Derived terms
Adjective
teen (not comparable)
- Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
teen fashion
Etymology 2
From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.
Noun
teen (plural teens)
- (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
- Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:
- The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 2:Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]
1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:
- That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
- (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.
Verb
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
- (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde
Etymology 4
From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.
Verb
teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
- 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:
- Hie tho' off or th' dur may be teen'd.
1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75: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?”
1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244:She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.
Pronunciation
Preposition
teen
- against
Basque
Noun
teen
- genitive plural of te
Danish
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Noun
teen c
- definite singular of te
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.
Noun
teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
- toe
- clove (of garlic)
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Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.
Noun
teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
- twig, thin branch
- Synonym: twijg
- (collective) A bundle of twigs.
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Dyula
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Noun
teen
- oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
- the fruit of the palm tree
Estonian
Verb
teen
- first-person singular present indicative of tegema
Finnish
Etymology 1
Verb
teen
- first-person singular present indicative of tehdä
Etymology 2
Noun
teen
- genitive singular of tee
Norwegian Bokmål
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Noun
teen m
- definite singular of te
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
teen m
- definite singular of te
Spanish
Adjective
teen m or f (masculine and feminine plural teens)
- teen
Tetum
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.
Noun
teen
- excrement, faeces, feces
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tèːn/
Pronoun
teen
- I (first-person singular pronoun)