English

Noun

teen ‎(plural teens)

1. (clipped form of teenager) A person between 13 and 19 years old.

Adjective

teen ‎(comparative more teen, superlative most teen)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona ‎(“reproach, wrong, harm”), from tēon ‎(“to accuse”), cognate with Old Norse tȳna ‎(“to lose”), from Old Norse tjōn ‎(“loss, damage”)[Skeat]; from Proto-Germanic *tīhaną ‎(“to blame”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyk- ‎(“to show, direct, say”); akin to German zeihen, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 ‎(gateihan, “to tell, announce”), Latin dīcere ‎(“to say”).

Noun

teen ‎(plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble; ill-fortune; harm; suffering.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […].

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:

     The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest

     MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:

     Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget

   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:

     With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:

     That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English tēonian, tȳnan ‎(“to slander, vex”). See Etymology 2 above.

Verb

teen ‎(third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

Etymology 4

See tine to shut

Verb

teen ‎(third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

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References

• teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• EENT
• NEET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tegen.

Preposition

teen

1. against

Danish

Noun

teen c

1. singular definite of te

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːn
• IPA^(key): /ˈteːn/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tee, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was origially a plural, which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.

Noun

teen m ‎(plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. (anatomy) toe
2. twig, thin branch

Synonyms

• (twig): twijg

Anagrams

• eten, neet

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

teen

1. First-person singular present indicative form of tehdä.

Etymology 2

Noun

teen

1. Genitive singular form of tee.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te