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Teenage vs Midteens - What's the difference?

teenage | midteens |

As nouns the difference between teenage and midteens

is that teenage is brushwood for fences and hedges while midteens is the period around the middle of the teenage years, such as ages 15 and 16.

As an adjective teenage

is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

teenage

English

Etymology 1

First attested circa 1700: teen (Kentish variant of tine: “enclose within a wattle fence”) (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Noun

(-)
  • Brushwood for fences and hedges.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    References
    * “ ?teenage n.''¹]” defined as a derived term of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50248204 teen, ''v.''²]”, listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1921: .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
    Derived terms
    * (l) English terms with multiple etymologies

    midteens

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mid-teens

    Noun

    (-)
  • The period around the middle of the teenage years, such as ages 15 and 16
    • Many children first experiment with drugs and alcohol in their midteens .

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