Teen

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Teen \Teen\, v. t. [AS. te['o]nian, t?nan, to slander, vex.
     [root]64. See {Teen}, n.]
     To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.]
     --Piers Plowman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Teen \Teen\, v. t. [See {Tine} to shut.]
     To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Teen \Teen\, n.
     a {teenager}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Teen \Teen\, n. [OE. tene, AS. te['o]na reproach, wrong, fr.
     te['o]n to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell,
     announce, L. dicere to say. See {Token}.]
     Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Spenser.
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           With public toil and private teen
           Thou sank'st alone.                      --M. Arnold.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  teen
       adj : being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen
             years" [syn: {adolescent}, {teenage}, {teenaged}]