teen

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.6 References 1.7 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 4 Finnish 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Verb 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: tēn, IPA: /tiːn/, SAMPA: /ti:n/

  Rhymes: -iːn

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[edit] Etymology 1

Back-formation from teenager.

[edit] Noun

teen (plural teens)

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

[edit] Translations

• See teenager.

[edit] Etymology 2

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.

[edit] Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser
   • 1866, Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget - Faustine, Swinburne
   • 1867, With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. - A Southern Night, Matthew Arnold
   • 1874, James Thomson, 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

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English teónian, tnan (“‘to slander, vex’”). See Etymology 2 above.

[edit] Verb

to teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

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

[edit] Etymology 4

See tine to shut

[edit] Verb

to teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

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

[edit] References

• teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of EENT
• NEET

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[edit] Noun

teen c.

1. Singular definite of te.

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[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /'teːn/

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teen m. (plural tenen, diminutive teentje, diminutive plural teentjes)

1. (anatomy) toe

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Verb

teen

1. First-person singular indicative present form of tehdä.

   • (Minä) teen kakkuja.
     • I make cakes.
   • Minä teen rikoksia.
     • I commit crimes.

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[edit] Noun

teen

1. Genitive singular form of tee.