teens

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English

Etymology

The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiːnz/
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  • Rhymes: -iːnz

Noun

teens

  1. plural of teen

Noun

teens pl (plural only)

  1. The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
    The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
  2. The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
    She is in her teens.
  3. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
    • 2010, Michael G Cunningham, “The 20th Century's aughts and teens: OPERETTA”, in Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979):
  4. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 10 and 19.
    Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.

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decades in English (edit)
22nd century 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
21st century 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
20th century 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
19th century 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
18th century 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
14th century 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s
Decade only 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Nicknames Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

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Danish

Noun

teens c

  1. definite genitive singular of te

Spanish

Adjective

teens m pl or f pl

  1. plural of teen
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