Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person between the ages of 13 and 19; an adolescent.
Wiktionary
- n. countable Literally, a person from thirteen to nineteen, an adolescent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Examples
“She was in fact marketed as the first “teenage” doll in the very years in which the term teenager came into existence.”
“When that spell was created, the spell to turn the Soul-Sword to darkness, the word teenager hadnt even been invented.”
“On the other hand, having a baby as a teenager is associated with quitting school and being unable to get a job providing a living wage.”
The Huffington Post: Nada Logan Stotland, M.D., MPH: Abortion Trauma: The Myth
“If you are in a position of trust, authority, or influence over a young person, pretty much any sexual interaction between you and the teenager is automatically sexual exploitation.”
Student-teacher love can be a serious crime in Canada : Law is Cool
“That feeling of immortality that you had as a teenager is a long-ago memory.”
“The fact that politicians support someone accused of raping a teenager is appalling.”
“For some reason, the teenager is my head is a band from San Jose, California called Shinobu.”
“Whether a teenager is a committed Christian, of a different faith or just has no religious affiliation, some of the patterns of how they make decisions transcend religious input, Kinnaman says.”
“The life of a teenager is an angst filled reality filled with torment and pathos.”
“Truth and Consequences, the picture that emerges of Ruth is one of a weak, cosseted adolescent, a spoiled Betty Draper-type from another era, and Sandell even uses the word "teenager" more than once to describe the nearly 70-year-old Ruth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teenager’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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-ager
Any word ending in -ager. And because I'm feeling generous tonight, I'll even let in words ending in -adger.
voyager, teenager, wager, pager, manager, dowager, badger, cadger, lager, rager, mumager, tanager and 14 more...
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Unwording
Outlawed words and books, like this.
samizdat, satanic verses, profanity, oriental, antilanguage, biddy, aviatrix, squaw, deaf-mute, border patrolman, cassandra, niggardly and 45 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Lifeforms with which I'd like to comm...
Perhaps by means of animal communication.
mould, seaweed, teenager, cheesemite, dugong, spoonbill, new caledonian bu..., forb, titan arum, hydroblab, actuary, william shatner and 6 more...
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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
There's a Word For It by Sol Steinmetz (2010, Harmony Books, New Y...nobrow, booboisie, robot, It girl, scofflaw, Babbitt, bozo, feedback, icky, daiquiri, subprime, T-shirt and 27 more...
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stages of life
newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling - A newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
cherub, baby, little one, infant, tot, yearling, babe in arms, papoose - a very you...newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling, cherub, baby, little one, infant, toddler, tween, adolescent and 21 more...
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Martina is
reticent, obsessive-compulsive, procrastinator, optimistic, compassionate, artistic, modest, syncretic, teenager, adult, student, benevolent and 1 more...
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OM1 Lesson 2
break, picture, frame, stapler, staple, reach, fall, crack, never mind, teens, teenager, long distance and 10 more...
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