teen

noun

Definition of teennext
as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old

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Recent Examples of teen Charles Schwab has joint brokerage accounts for teens and their parents. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026 Various medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say children and teens should avoid energy drinks altogether. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Both pre-teens, my kids are at slightly different stages in understanding how government and elections work. — Jeanette Senecal, Time, 3 Oct. 2026 Camera footage provided by the Winters Joint Unified School District helped officers identify the teen as a suspect, police said. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
  1. teenager
  2. preteen
  3. tween
  4. kid
  5. teenybopper
  6. youngster
  7. adolescent
  8. juvenile
Noun
  • French youths have been demonstrating over poor conditions at school buildings, and analysts expect unrest to intensify after a teenager’s hand was blown off by a riot police sting grenade.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The widespread use of arrests, tear gas and riot-control weapons against teenagers is fueling defiance and angering some parents and teachers.
    — NICOLAS GARRIGA, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of teenager
Noun
  • But Abby worries about losing the trust of her preteen son Denny (Christopher Woodley) by bailing on his dad at such a strategic time.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Caleb Flynn’s two preteen daughters seemed nervous after speaking privately with their father days following their mother’s fatal shooting, according to testimony in his murder trial Tuesday.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of preteen
Noun
  • Bicks was hired after Harvey could no longer pass as a tween.
    — Samantha Bergeson, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
  • When her adorable tween Sun-woo leaves for camp, single mother So-young (Kim Hyun-joo) waves goodbye as his bus departs, while something ominous hangs in the air.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of tween
Noun
  • But that also ties some kids’ savings to a single company’s fortunes.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The kind of life admin tasks like swim lesson sign-ups and appointment confirmations that pile up with alarming frequency in a house of one preschool-age kid and two adults with full-time jobs.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of kid
Noun
  • At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.
    — Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of teenybopper
Noun
  • However, the youngster scowled at the suggestion that Argentina might face a trophy-less era following Messi's retirement.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • That’s the journey, and process for all the Dolphins’ youngsters — first-, second- and some third-year players — on this year’s rebuilding team.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of youngster
Noun
  • Getty An island that had spent decades pairing glamour with license was perhaps the wrong place to entrust an adolescent to unusually permissive relatives.
    — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
  • One adolescent possibly had contact with the bat, officials said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of adolescent
Noun
  • The juvenile, the report said, received medical attention for their injury.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Nine adults and five juveniles were inside those houses at the time.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of juvenile

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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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