# teens

Pronunciation: say "TEENZ" /tinz/

## Noun

1. The stage of life between the ages of thirteen and nineteen; the teenage years.
   - Simple: The years of a person's life from age thirteen to nineteen.
   - _He picked up the guitar in his teens and never put it down._
   - _By her late teens she had already published two short stories._
2. The seven whole numbers whose names end in -teen, thirteen through nineteen.
   - Simple: The counting numbers from thirteen up to nineteen.
   - _Counting aloud, the toddler skipped right past the teens to twenty._
   - _The lottery balls drawn that night all fell within the teens._
3. Plural of teen. — plural of teen
   - Simple: Plural of teen. Use this when talking about more than one teenager.
   - _Several teens volunteered at the animal shelter over the summer._
   - _The teens argued for an hour about which movie to watch._
4. The second decade of a century: the years ending in the numbers ten through nineteen, such as the 1910s or 2010s.
   - Simple: The years of a century from ten to nineteen, like the 1910s or 2010s.
   - _Historians often describe the teens as the decade reshaped by the First World War._
   - _Architectural tastes of the teens favored cleaner lines than the ornate decades before._
5. The range of values from ten to nineteen, often used of temperatures, rates, or scores.
   - Simple: Any number from ten to nineteen, often used for temperatures or scores.
   - _The forecast warned that wind chill would push readings into the teens._
   - _Mortgage rates climbed into the teens during that turbulent period._

## Origin

The word comes from the final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/teens (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).