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# teen

«teen» in Mova's school dictionary: **A teenager, a person aged 13 to 19** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a teen, teens); adjective (teen); combining form (-teen, as in thirteen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A teenager, a person aged 13 to 19. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#m1)

2) (adjective) For or about teenagers: a teen magazine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#m2)

3) In your teens: aged between 13 and 19. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#m3)

4) -teen: the ending of numbers 13 to 19, meaning «and ten». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, -teen numbers (thirteen to nineteen) are ten plus a number; pupils learn not to confuse thirteen (13) with thirty (30) by listening for the stress. In everyday life, teen is a short word for teenager. Phrases: in her teens, early teens, teen years.

### examples

- My sister is a teen now, she's 14. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x1)
- The library has a teen section. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x2)
- Grandpa started work in his teens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x3)
- Fifteen is a teen number: 10 + 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x4)
- The film is not suitable for young teens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x5)
- Thirteen is the first teen number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/#x6)

### note

Teen is informal for teenager. Listen for the stress: thir-TEEN (13) versus THIR-ty (30). In maths, a -teen number = 10 + the first part (fourteen = 10 + 4); eleven and twelve are not teen numbers.

### In the corpora

- [It isn't hate: teens want time with their own friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/16/)
- [Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/9/)
- [Bigger differences in strength and speed appear in the teens, when boys make much more testosterone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/6/)
- [The teens end in -nadtsyat: odyNAdtsyat 11, dvaNAdtsyat 12, trynAdtsyat 13, p'yatNAdtsyat 15, shistNAdtsyat 16.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/14/)
- [Children often grow about 5 to 6 cm a year before puberty, and growth spurts happen, especially in the teen years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.