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Teenage vs Preteenage - What's the difference?

teenage | preteenage |

As adjectives the difference between teenage and preteenage

is that teenage is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old while preteenage is younger than teenage; often specifically of an age shortly before the teens, such as 10-12.

As a noun teenage

is brushwood for fences and hedges.

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

    preteenage

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Younger than teenage; often specifically of an age shortly before the teens, such as 10-12.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 27, author=Michael Barbaro, title=Gap Closing Chain Aimed at Over-30s, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So the same chains that had won over the preteenage , teenage and college crowd decided to tackle older women. }}

    Related terms

    *preteen