Teens - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |tiːnz|  American pronunciation of the word teens
Brit.  |tiːnz|  British pronunciation of the word teens
- this word is used as a plural form of the nounteen

noun

- the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
- all the numbers that end in -teen

Extra examples

...as the reigning princess of pop music, she exerts an enormous influence over teens...

The house was a sanctuary for runaway teens.

...the kind of neighborhood in which it was standard practice for young teens to be bullyragged into joining a street gang...

The teens were stopped by police for violating the curfew.

...a novel that examines the decadency of a group of overprivileged teens in an affluent suburb...

...the new counselor is eager to develop a trustful fellowship with the troubled teens at the center...

...inelegant teens still learning how to act at formal events...

...the boy was just a shrimp until his teens, when he had a growth spurt...

...the teacher decided to make a career change after having to teach yet another class of uninterested teens...

He was in his early teens.

She fell in with the wrong crowd in her teens.

Diana and Laura have been firm friends (=close friends) since their early teens.

The early teens are often a difficult age.

Carol lost interest in ballet in her teens.

Converted in his early teens, he entered the ministry (=started working as a church leader) in 1855.

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