different between adolescence vs teen

English

Etymology

From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescens (“young”); see adolescent.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd??l?s?ns/

Noun

adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)

1. The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

   Synonyms: teendom, teenhood

Derived terms

• preadolescence

Related terms

• adolescent

Translations

Further reading

• adolescence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• adolescence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?adol?st?s?nt?s?]
• Hyphenation: ado?les?cen?ce

Noun

adolescence n

1. adolescence

   Synonym: dospívání

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• adolescence in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• adolescence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adul?scentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.l?.s??s/

Noun

adolescence f (plural adolescences)

1. adolescence

Derived terms

• crise d'adolescence
• préadolescence

Related terms

• adolescent

See also

• puberté

Further reading

• “adolescence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Late 13th century, borrowed from Latin adolescentia.

Noun

adolescence f (oblique plural adolescences, nominative singular adolescence, nominative plural adolescences)

1. adolescence

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /ti?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology 1

Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. A teenager.

Derived terms

Adjective

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   teen fashion

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tene, from Old English t?ona, t?one, *t?on, from Proto-Germanic *teun?.

Noun

teen (plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:

     The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:

     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, James Thomson, 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

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tenen, from Old English t?onian, t?nan (“to slander, vex”), from Proto-Germanic *tiunijan?.

Verb

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

Etymology 4

See tine (“to shut”).

Verb

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

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References

• teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• teun (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch tegen, from Middle Dutch tegen, tjegen, from te jegen, the latter from Old Dutch gegin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??n/

Preposition

teen

1. against

Basque

Noun

teen

1. genitive plural of te

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

teen c

1. definite singular of te

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?n/
• Hyphenation: teen
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf which went the opposite way.

Noun

teen m (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. toe

Alternative forms

• toon (dated, dialectal)

Derived terms

• grote teen
• lange tenen
• teengewricht
• teennagel
• teenschimmel
• teensok
• van top tot teen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toon
• ? Papiamentu: tenchi (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tene, teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *t?n, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

Noun

teen f or n (plural tenen, diminutive teentje n)

1. twig, thin branch

   Synonym: twijg

2. clove (of garlic)
3. (collective) A bundle of twigs.

Alternative forms

• tien (archaic)

Derived terms

• wilgenteen

Anagrams

• eten, neet

Dyula

Alternative forms

• ten

Noun

teen

1. oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
2. the fruit of the palm tree

Estonian

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tegema

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

teen

1. first-person singular present indicative of tehdä

Etymology 2

Noun

teen

1. genitive singular of tee

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

teen m

1. definite singular of te

Spanish

Adjective

teen (plural teens)

1. teen

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse tiðna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?è?n], [t?è??], [t?è???n]

  Rhymes: -è?n

Verb

teen (preterite tenä)

1. (intransitive) thaw, melt

Related terms

• tiden