Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See teen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete See 1st and 2d teen.

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Examples

  • “I will tell them ‘tene kpollu,’” I whispered with a grin.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “I will tell them ‘tene kpollu,’” I whispered with a grin.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “I will tell them ‘tene kpollu,’” I whispered with a grin.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • “I will tell them ‘tene kpollu,’” I whispered with a grin.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • People we label as terrorists are fighting what they call urban guerilla warfare, is really nothing but people, professing to be happy to die in conflict, firing missiles from among tene-ment and apartment buildings.

    Q. and A. With Taghreed El-Khodary in Gaza - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Travis winced at the name of the top executive of a local sports tene that D D & L was courting and hoped to represent.

    The Summer Girl Boeshaar, Andrea 2003

  • Surge, tolle puerum, et tene manu tua eum: quia in gentem magnam ponam eum.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • * Firmissime tene et nullatenus dubites, posse quidem hominem, quem nec ignorantia literarum, neque aliqua prohibet imbecillitas vel adversitas, verba sanctae legis et evangelii sive legere sive ex ore cujusquam praedicatoris audire; sed divinis mandatis obedire neminem posse, nisi quem Deus gratia sua praevenerit, ut quod audit corpore, etiam corde percipiat et aecepta divinitus bona voluntate atque virtute, mandata Dei facere et velit et possit.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • -- Ed. [97] "Firmissime tene et nullatenus dubites, posse quidem hominem, quem nec ignorantia literarum, neque aliqua prohibet imbecillitas vel adversitas, verba sanctae legis et evangelii sive legere sive ex ore cujusquam praedicatoris audire; sed divinis mandatis obedire neminem posse, nisi quem Deus gratia sua praevenerit, ut quod audit corpore, etiam corde percipiat et aecepta divinitus bona voluntate atque virtute, mandata Dei facere et velit et possit."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Muchel sotschipe hit is leosen for an dei {;} tene oðer tweolue.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

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