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teen·age
 teenage
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- pronunciation:
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adjective |
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A teenage person, is a person between the ages of thirteen and twenty. The number of their age ends in "-teen." A teenage person might be nineteen years old, for example. If people talk about their "teenage years," they are talking about the time when they were between thirteen and twenty.
The neighbors have two teenage boys. One is thirteen and the other is fifteen.Ms. Bardi lived her teenage years in Italy, and then her family moved back to America. |
| related words: |
young |
| derivation: |
teenaged (adj.) |
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