teenagers
USTEEN-ay-jurz/ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)z/UKTEEN-ay-juhz/ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒəz/
- 1Plural of teenager.
Most teenagers in the survey said they sleep fewer than seven hours a night.
The coach divided the teenagers into two teams for the scrimmage.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s and taking a plural verb: teenagers sleep, teenagers say. In the possessive the apostrophe goes after the s (the teenagers' phones), while a single person's belongings are a teenager's. The span of thirteen to nineteen is simply the run of numbers whose names end in -teen.
teenagers is a form of teenager
teenager, noun: A person between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. Full entry
- Forms
- teenagerteenagers plural
- Spelling
- teenager → teenagers: add -s
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