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Stripling vs Teenager - What's the difference?

stripling | teenager |

As nouns the difference between stripling and teenager

is that stripling is (archaic) a youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad while teenager is teenager.

stripling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
  • * 1749 , (John Cleland), (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)
    • Figure to yourself, Madam, a fair stripling , between eighteen and nineteen, with his head reclin'd on one of the sides of the chair, his hair in disorder'd curls, irregularly shading a face on which all the roseate bloom of youth and all the manly graces conspired to fix my eyes and heart. Even the languor and paleness of his face, in which the momentary triumph of the lily over the rose was owing to the excesses of the night, gave an inexpressible sweetness to the finest features imaginable
  • * 1879 : , Chapter 6
    • For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

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    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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