Teen

Pronunciation

• enPR: tÄ“n, IPA: /tiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

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Full definition of teen

Noun

1. A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

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

1. (archaic) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:In which the birds song many a lovely lay
  Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene,
  As it an earthly Paradize had beene ....
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen,
• On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
• 1610, , by ShakespeareMIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds
  To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to,
  Which is from my remembrance.
• 1866, Algernon Swinburne, :Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
• 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
• 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), 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

From Old English teónian, tnan ("to slander, vex"). See Etymology 2 above.

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers Plowman

See tine to shut

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

Anagrams

• EENT
• NEET