Teen (magazine)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Being of the age 13 through 19
"Teenage mothers"
"The teen years"
noun
(2) A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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Etymology 2
Middle English tene, from Old English teōna reproach, wrong, from teōn to accuse; akin to German zeihen, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to tell, announce”), Latin dīcere to say. See token.
Noun
- Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser
- 1866, Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget - Faustine, Swinburne
- 1867, With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. - A Southern Night, Matthew Arnold
- 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
Etymology 3
From teónian, . See Etymology 2 above.
Verb
- To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman
Verb
- To hedge or fence in; to enclose. - Halliwell?