different between teens vs twenties

English

Etymology

The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?nz/
• Rhymes: -i?nz

Noun

teens

1. plural of teen

teens pl (plural only)

1. The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.

   The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.

2. The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

   She is in her teens.

3. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
4. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 10 and 19.

   Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• ESnet, Enets, NEETs, Tenes, enset, neets, seent, senet, sente, steen, tense

Danish

Noun

teens c

1. definite genitive singular of te

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'twenties

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ntiz

Noun

twenties

1. plural of twenty

twenties pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

   My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.

2. The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.

   The waiter was in his twenties.

   • 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien

     At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.

3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 20 and 29.

   She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.

Synonyms

• 1920s, 2020s, '20s, 20s

Translations

See also

• tween
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

Adjective

twenties (not comparable)

1. From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

   That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.

Anagrams

• tentwise