teens
- noun
- /tiːnz/
- During their teens, many young people discover their passions and interests.
- NOVELS FOR TEENS
- Teens and adults
- GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS
Boys in their late teens should not go to college.
- Boys in their late teens should not go to college.
- Lisa joined me to decode today's teens and their most pressing issues.
- We could help millions of teens with counseling and referrals.
- Great news, Connecticut teens, you're going to prom.
- And keep in mind, so she was in her teens when I was born.
- That's that's roughly when teens switch from flip phones to smartphones right around them.
- We were teens at this point and she was getting older.
Examples
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In the early teens, she started having knee pain.
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Boys in their late teens should not go to college.
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So that means you were young teens when Top Gun came out.
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And keep in mind, so she was in her teens when I was born.
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Most smokers begin as teens, and this is quite interesting to me.
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Great news, Connecticut teens, you're going to prom.
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Snapchat is the way of the teens these days, isn't it?
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We could help millions of teens with counseling and referrals.
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Allie and I starred in a movie as teens called Cowbells.
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Lisa joined me to decode today's teens and their most pressing issues.
Synonyms
The time between childhood and adulthood when someone is young
A time between childhood and adulthood when a person changes physically and emotionally and becomes more independent
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teens for the ages comes from the number part -teen, which came from an old word meaning 'ten'. So a teenager is someone whose age is 'thirteen' to 'nineteen', and that is why we call that whole age group the teens.