preteens
- 1Plural of preteen.
Marketers increasingly target preteens with apps and clothing lines designed for their age group.
The library set up a reading club specifically for preteens who had outgrown the picture books.
Note
Only the noun takes this -s. The same spelling, preteen, also serves as an adjective for things designed for children of roughly ten to twelve, and English adjectives never inflect for number: preteen fashion, a shelf of preteen novels, never preteens fashion. Before another noun, drop the -s. When the word names the children themselves, as in a club for preteens, keep it.
preteens is a form of preteen
preteen, noun: A child of roughly ten to twelve years old, on the threshold of adolescence. Full entry
- Forms
- preteenpreteens plural
- Spelling
- preteen → preteens: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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