teen

See also: -teen and teen-

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tēn, IPA^(key): /tiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

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Etymology 1

Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. A teenager.

Adjective

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers.

   teen fashion

Translations

teenager — see teenager

Etymology 2

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:

     Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:

     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, 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

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Translations

grief, sorrow, suffering

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 痛苦 (tung³ fu²)

• Russian: бе́дствие (ru) n (bédstvije), го́ре (ru) n (góre), несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje)
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Etymology 3

From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to slander, vex”), from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

Verb

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.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

Etymology 4

See tine (“to shut”).

Verb

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.

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References

• “teen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪən/

Preposition

teen

1. against

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Danish

Noun

teen c

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of te

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːn/

• audio:

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• Hyphenation: teen
• Rhymes: -eːn

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.

Noun

teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. toe

Alternative forms

• toon (dated, dialectal)

Derived terms

• grote teen
• lange tenen
• teengewricht
• teennagel
• teenschimmel
• teensok
• van top tot teen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toon

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

Noun

teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. twig, thin branch

   Synonym: twijg

2. clove (of garlic)
3. (collective) A bundle of twigs.

Alternative forms

• tien (archaic)

Derived terms

• wilgenteen

Anagrams

• eten, neet

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Estonian

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tegema

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tehdä

Etymology 2

Noun

teen

1. genitive singular of tee

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

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Spanish

Adjective

teen m or f (masculine and feminine plural téenes)

1. teen

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From .

Verb

1. thaw, melt