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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iuven?lis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -?lis (“suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to”). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?en- (“young”), from *h?óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h?ey- (“age; life”)) + *h?én (“in”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?u?v?na?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?u?v?na?l/, /?d?u?v?n?l/
• Hyphenation: ju?ven?ile

Adjective

juvenile (comparative more juvenile, superlative most juvenile)

1. Young; not fully developed.
2. Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.

   Synonyms: (colloquial) juvey, milky, puerile; see also Thesaurus:childish

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Noun

juvenile (plural juveniles)

1. A prepubescent child.
2. A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.

   Synonyms: (dated) infant, (colloquial) juvie
3. (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
4. (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
5. (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
6. (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
7. A two-year-old racehorse.
   • 1972, Edward Samuel Montgomery, The Thoroughbred (page 449)

     Even more incredible is the legion of two-year-olds who win handsomely as juveniles and then disappear from the racetrack.

   • 2005, Ken McLean, Designing Speed in the Racehorse (page 206)

     Professional trainers foster young horses with obvious potential. Instance the way Sir Michael Stoute uses patience to bring along his two-year-old colts and fillies at Newmarket, or the careful approach taken with juveniles by that wonderful conditioner Charlie Whittingham in California.

   • 2012, Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing (page 6)

     Thereafter, males aged two to four are colts, females are fillies, racing two-year-olds are sometimes referred to as juveniles, and animals still running at five, the age of thoroughbred maturity, or older, are horses or mares according to gender.

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Further reading

• juvenile (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

juven?le

1. nominative neuter singular of juven?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of juven?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of juven?lis

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

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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.

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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