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# teenager

«teenager» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person between 13 and 19 years old** — 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 teenager, teenagers)

### meaning for a pupil

A person between 13 and 19 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, teenagers are older brothers, sisters, cousins or babysitters; they go to secondary or high school. In maths, the «teens» are the ages that end in «-teen»: thirteen to nineteen, so a teenager is 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 — 7 different ages. In health lessons, the teenage years bring puberty and big body changes. Phrases: «a teenage boy/girl», «in your teens», «teenage years».

### examples

- My cousin is a teenager; he's fifteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x1)
- When you turn thirteen, you become a teenager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x2)
- Teenagers often like to sleep late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x3)
- Our babysitter is a responsible teenager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x4)
- The film is for teenagers and adults, not young children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x5)
- In ten years, I'll be a teenager no more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x6)
- Teenagers go to high school or secondary school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x7)
- My sister became a teenager last month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x8)

### note

Countable. Adjective: «teenage» (a teenage girl); informal «teen». Trap: 11 and 12 are not teens, even though «eleven» and «twelve» sound like it; only thirteen to nineteen end in «-teen».

### In the corpora

- [Nicotine is very addictive, so smokers feel uncomfortable until they have the next one, and most started as teenagers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/6/)
- [What he can see is teenagers chatting after school.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/8/)
- [A grown-up's or teenager's profile on a streaming app shows films for their age, not yours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/11/)
- [A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/16/)
- ["Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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