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Adolescent vs Teens - What's the difference?

adolescent | teens |

As nouns the difference between adolescent and teens

is that adolescent is a teenager; a juvenile after puberty while teens is plural of lang=en.

As an adjective adolescent

is characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.

adolescent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Characteristic]] of, or relating to, or [[undergo, undergoing adolescence; immature.
  • * Cowper
    • Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

    Related terms

    * adolescence * adult

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager; a juvenile after puberty.

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    teens

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (plural only) The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
    • The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
  • (plural only) The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • She is in her teens.
  • (plural only) The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
  • * {{quote-book, title=Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979)
    • , chapter=The 20th Century's aughts and teens : OPERETTA , author=Michael G Cunningham , year=2010}}

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