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Teen vs Teens - What's the difference?

teen | teens |

As nouns the difference between teen and teens

is that teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old while teens is plural of lang=en.

As a verb teen

is to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.

teen

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, 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 (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
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  • *: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), :
  • *: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 , , (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

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
    • (Halliwell)

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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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