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Children vs Teenager - What's the difference?

children | teenager |

As nouns the difference between children and teenager

is that children is plural of lang=en while teenager is literally, a person from thirteen to nineteen who is in their teens; an adolescent.

children

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(head)
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

    teenager

    English

    (Adolescence)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) Literally, a person from thirteen'' to nine''teen who is in their teens; an adolescent.
  • Usage notes

    Sometimes only refers up to the legal minor limit in many countries of eighteen years old, or sometimes only refers up to the point of high school graduation. In the earlier years, sometimes referred to as a youth; in later years, sometimes referred to as a young adult.

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