Teens

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːnz

Origin

The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.

Noun

plural

1. Plural of teen
2. (plural only) The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
3. (plural only) The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old.She is in her teens.
4. (plural only) The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
• 2010, Michael G Cunningham, Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979) Chapter The 20th Century's aughts and teens: OPERETTA

Anagrams

• Enets, sente, tense