teens
- 1The years of a person's life from age thirteen to nineteen.
Like the part of your life right after being a child and before becoming an adult.
She spent her teens in a small coastal town.
Most kids grow several inches during their teens.
Similaradolescence, youth
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- 2The counting numbers from thirteen up to nineteen.
Children often stumble over the teens when they first learn to count.
On the worksheet, circle every number that lands in the teens.
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- 3Plural of teen. Use this when talking about more than one teenager.
The teens gathered outside the mall after school.
Three teens helped clean up the park.
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- 4The years of a century from ten to nineteen, like the 1910s or 2010s.
Fashion changed dramatically during the teens and into the twenties.
The early teens saw rapid growth in mobile technology.
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- 5Any number from ten to nineteen, often used for temperatures or scores.
Temperatures dropped into the teens overnight.
Her bowling scores were stuck in the teens all evening.
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teens is a form of teen
teen, noun: A young person between 13 and 19 years old. Full entry
- Forms
- teenteens plural
- Spelling
- teen → teens: add -s
Practice
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Origin
This comes from the last part of the number words thirteen to nineteen.