teen
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
teen (plural teens)
- A teenager.
teen (not comparable)
- Of or having to do with teenagers.
- teen fashion
teen (plural teens)
- (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
- Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book III, canto V:
- In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene {{...}
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso, X, xxv:
- The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii], page 2 ↗:
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- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:
- With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
- 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), 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
- (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
- Russian: бе́дствие
teen (teens, present participle teening; past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
- (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
teen (teens, present participle teening; past and past participle teened)
- (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
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