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teen /tiːn  /informal adjective [attributive]Relating to teenagers: a teen idol...- Now you can't move for former teen idols reconfiguring themselves for an adult audience.
- This, combined with more spending power, saw the emergence of teen idols of which Frank was one of the first.
- If these are complex times for teenagers, they're fascinating for teen pop.
nounA teenager.Parents have a wide range of reactions when they find out their teen is having a baby....- As a teen, she lived briefly in a foster home, but is now on good terms with her parents.
- Mike asked the teen's parents if he could take the boy to the Air Force base for lunch.
Origin Early 19th century (as a noun): abbreviation. The adjective dates from the 1940s. RhymesAberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean |