the years of a person's life between the ages of 13 and 19 inclusive
2.
all the numbers that end in -teen
teens in American English
(tinz)
plural noun
the numbers 13 through 19, esp. in a progression, as the 13th through the 19th years of a lifetime or of a given or implied century
Word origin
[1595–1605; teen (extracted from numbers with -teen as final element) + -s3]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: density, exposure, option, posture, zero-s an ending marking nouns as plural (boys; wolves), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs; entrails; pants; scissors), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (clothes; glasses; manners; thanks). The pluralizing value of -s is weakened or lost in a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement,as the names of games (billiards; checkers; tiddlywinks) and of diseases (measles; mumps; pox; rickets); the latter use has been extended to create informal names for a variety of involuntaryconditions, physical or mental (collywobbles; giggles; hots; willies). A parallel set of formations, where -s has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenientstates (bananas; bonkers; crackers; nuts; preggers; starkers)
In other languages
teens
British English: teens /tiːnz/ NOUN
If you are in your teens, you are between 13 and 19 years old.
I first met John in my late teens.
American English: teens
Arabic: السَّنَوَاتُ بَيْـن ١٣ و ١٩ مِن العُمْر
Brazilian Portuguese: período da adolescência
Chinese: 十多岁
Croatian: tinejdžerske godine
Czech: dospívání období
Danish: teenageår
Dutch: tienerjaren
European Spanish: adolescencia periodo
Finnish: teini-ikä
French: adolescence
German: Teenageralter
Greek: εφηβική ηλικία
Italian: adolescenza
Japanese: 十代
Korean: 십대
Norwegian: tenåringer
Polish: wiek dojrzewania
European Portuguese: período da adolescência
Romanian: adolescență
Russian: возраст от 13 до 19 лет
Latin American Spanish: adolescencia
Swedish: tonåren
Thai: ช่วงวัยรุ่น
Turkish: ergenler
Ukrainian: вік від 13 до 19 років
Vietnamese: tuổi thiếu niên
Chinese translation of 'teens'
teens
(tiːnz)
n pl
to be in one's teens在少年时(時)代 (zài shàonián shídài)