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English
Etymology
The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Pronunciation
Noun
teens
- plural of teen
Noun
teens pl (plural only)
- The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
- The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
She is in her teens.
- 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):
- (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.
Translations
the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive
time of life between 13 and 19 years old
second decade of a century
See also
Anagrams
- ESnet, Enets, NEETs, Stene, Tenes, enset, neets, seent, senet, sente, steen, tense
Danish
Noun
teens c
- definite genitive singular of te
Spanish
Adjective
teens m pl or f pl
- plural of teen