different between teen vs junior

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?u?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?unj?/
• Rhymes: -u?ni?(?)
• Hyphenation: ju?nior

Adjective

junior (not generally comparable, comparative more junior, superlative most junior)

1. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
2. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
3. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]

4. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

Alternative forms

• juniour (obsolete)

Related terms

Translations

Noun

junior (plural juniors)

1. A younger person.
   • 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle

     Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

   • 1939 P. G. Wodehouse, "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":

     The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.

2. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
3. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.
4. (law) A junior barrister.

Antonyms

• senior

Translations

Further reading

• junior at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin junior, juniorem; Doublet of geindre. Cf. also the inherited Old French oblique case gignor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.nj??/

Noun

junior m or f (plural juniors)

1. (sports) junior

Adjective

junior (plural juniors)

1. junior (all senses)

See also

• juveigneur

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iunior (“younger”), from Latin iuvenis (“young”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?junijor]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?or
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

junior

1. (sports) junior

Declension

Synonyms

• ifjúsági

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin junior, i?nior, from Proto-Italic *juwenj?s, from *juwenis + *-j?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??u?ni?r]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?or

Adjective

junior

1. young

   Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, muda, remaja, yuvenil, yuwana

2. junior.

Alternative forms

• yunior

Antonyms

• senior

Further reading

• “junior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Adjective

j?nior (neuter j?nius, positive juvenis); third declension

1. Alternative form of i?nior

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

References

• junior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press