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Definition of 'teen'English
Etymology 1
Noun
( en-noun)
A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).
Noun
( en-noun)
(label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
*, III.5:
*: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 (w), X, xxv:
*:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
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*:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
*1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
*: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 , , (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
Etymology 3
From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
- (Piers Plowman)
Etymology 4
See tine to shut
Verb
( en-verb)
(transitive|obsolete|provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
- (Halliwell)
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