# teen
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: tēn, IPA: /tiːn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːn

### 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.
    In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving. NTSB, NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Dangers of Marijuana for Teen Drivers, 18 July 2024
** 2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...
** 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

##### Derived terms

* alternateen
* clean teen
* preteen
* stepteen
* teendom
* teen drama
* teenhood
* teenie
* teen-nap

#### 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-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

#### Noun

teen (plural teens)
* (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
    Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]
** 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]
** 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget
** 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.

### References

* “teen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### See also

* teen patti

### Anagrams

* -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

## Afrikaans
### Alternative forms

* teun (archaic)

### Etymology

From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪən/
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

teen
* against

## Basque
### Noun

teen
* genitive plural of te

## Danish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

teen c
* definite singular of te

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteːn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: teen
* Rhymes: -eːn

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā, 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 and ui which went the opposite way.

#### Noun

teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
* toe
* clove (of garlic)

##### Alternative forms

* toon (dated, dialectal)

##### Derived terms

* drieteenmeeuw
* drieteenstrandloper
* grote teen
* lange tenen
* teengewricht
* teennagel
* teenschimmel
* teenslipper
* teensok
* tenenkrommend
* tenenkrullend
* van top tot teen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: toon
* Negerhollands: tee, tetsi, tetśi
* → Papiamentu: tenchi (from the diminutive)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

#### Noun

teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)
* twig, thin branch
    Synonym: twijg
* (collective) a bundle of twigs

##### Usage notes

The neuter gender is sometimes for the collective sense “bundle of twigs”.

##### Alternative forms

* tien (archaic)

##### Derived terms

* wilgenteen

### Anagrams

* eten, neet

## Dyula
### Alternative forms

* ten

### 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
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

teen m
* definite singular of te

### Anagrams

* ente, eten, neet, -enet

## 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: /tèːn/

### Pronoun

teen
* I (first-person singular pronoun)