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teenage

teenage

325 1.0
Relating to people aged 13 to 19
  • adjective
  • /ˈtiːneɪdʒ/
translation icon : adolescente
  • Slightly before my teenage years I developed a problem.
  • teenage years
  • teenage girls
  • teenage boys

Would you allow him to take your teenage daughters to the movie?

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Examples

  • - My teenage daughter is home alone.

  • Can you do a dance for Eddie and his two teenage daughters, please?

  • And going into my sort of teenage years at school was quite difficult.

  • It's a teenage girl walking along the side of the highway.

  • So what advice would you give a teenage Kevin just starting out?

  • Girls in the early mid to mid teenage years is the most affected group.

  • The Wilson family has a teenage son with a genetic disability that showed up later in life.

    Academic text (2008)
  • You mentioned the peril that so many teenage girls are experiencing currently.

  • A middle-aged woman and her teenage daughter climb out, with packages from a shopping trip.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • My teenage sister loves to play video games with her friends.

Synonyms

adolescent
vsteenage
50 3.4

Relating to the teenage years between childhood and adulthood

is limited to the specific age range thirteen to nineteen rather than the whole stage
teen
vsteenage
41 1.0

For people aged 13 to 19

is the adjective form focusing on relation to that age range
teenaged
vsteenage
7 1.0

About people who are 13 to 19 years old

is the general adjective for that age range rather than the person

How Child-Friendly

kiddy
  • Informal
9 5.4
junior
30 1.0
teenage
325 1.0
adult
  • NSFW
31 7.7

Surface Forms

teenage positive

Morphology

teenage = teen + age (transparent) = teen + age

The meaning is directly recoverable from 'teen' + 'age' as a period of the teenage years.

Etymology

Teenage comes from the part teen, which you see in numbers like 'thirteen' to 'nineteen', and the ending -age, which means a 'time' or 'period'. So teenage is the time in your life when your age ends with 'teen', about 13 to 19 years old.