teenager

teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Alternative forms

• teen-ager

Etymology

teenage +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. A person between 13 and 19 years old.

   Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

Synonyms

• See more synonyms at Thesaurus:teenager

Hypernyms

• adolescent

Coordinate terms

• denarian (10-19)
• vicenarian (20–29)
• twentysomething (20–29)
• tricenarian (30–39)
• thirtysomething (30–39)
• quadragenarian (40–49)
• fortysomething (40–49)
• quinquagenarian (50–59)
• semicentenarian (50–59)
• fiftysomething (50–59)
• sexagenarian (60–69)
• sixtysomething (60–69)
• septuagenarian (70–79)
• seventysomething (70–79)
• octogenarian (80–89)
• eightysomething (80–89)
• nonagenarian (90–99)
• ninetysomething (90–99)
• centenarian (100–199)
• hundredsomething (100–199)
• supercentenarian (110-119)

 

Descendants

• → Danish: teenager
• → French: teenager
• → Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
• → Russian: тине́йджер (tinéjdžer)
• → Spanish: teenager

Translations

person aged between thirteen and nineteen

Afrikaans: tiener Albanian: ri (sq) Arabic: مُرَاهِق‎ m (murāhiq) Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani), թինեյջեր (hy) (tʿineyǰer) Bashkir: үҫмер (üθmer) Belarusian: падле́так m (padljétak), тынэ́йджэр m (tynéjdžer) Bulgarian: тийне́йджър m (tijnéjdžǎr) Catalan: adolescent (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 少年 (zh) (shàonián), 青少年 (zh) (qīngshàonián) Cornish: degowek m, degowoges f Crimean Tatar: ösmür Czech: výrostek m, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák m, dospívající m, teenager m Danish: teenager (da) c Dutch: tiener (nl), adolescent (nl) m, puber (nl) m or f Esperanto: dekkelkjarulo, plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino, adoleskulo, adoleskanto Estonian: teismeline, noor (et) Faroese: tannáringur (fo) m Finnish: teini-ikäinen (fi) French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f, ado (fr) m or f Galician: adolescente (gl) m or f, rapaz (gl) m, rapazolo m, mozo (gl) m, rapazola f, rapariga f, rapaza f, moza f Georgian: მოზარდი (mozardi), თინეიჯერი (tineiǯeri) German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos), έφηβη (el) f (éfivi) Greenlandic: inuusuttuaraq Hungarian: serdülő (hu), tini (hu), tinédzser (hu), tizenéves (hu), kamasz (hu) Icelandic: táningur (is) m, unglingur (is) m Indonesian: anak belasan tahun Irish: déagóir m, déagóirí pl Italian: giovane (it) c, adolescente (it), ragazzino (it) m, ragazzina (it) f Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā), ティーンエイジャー (tīn'eijā), 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen) Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo), 십대(十代) (ko) (sipdae), 10대 (10dae) Lao: ໄວຫນຸ່ມ (wai num) Latin: iuvenis (la) c, iuventus m, iuventa f Latvian: pusaudzis m, pusaudze f, tīnis m, tīne f Macedonian: тинејџер m (tinejdžer), тинејџерка f (tinejdžerka) Malay: remaja Maori: taitamariki Norwegian: Bokmål: tenåring (no) m Nynorsk: tenåring m Persian: نوجوان‎ (fa) (nowjavân) Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl) f Portuguese: adolescente (pt) Romagnol: adulescént m Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f Russian: подро́сток (ru) m (podróstok), тине́йджер (ru) m (tinɛ́jdžer) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѝнејџер m Roman: tìnejdžer (sh) m Slovak: tínedžer m Sotho: motjha (st) Spanish: adolescente (es), puberto m (colloquial, Mexico) Swahili: kijana (sw) Swedish: tonåring (sv) c Tagalog: lalabintaunin Thai: วัยรุ่น (th) (wai rûn) Turkish: genç (tr) Ukrainian: підлі́ток (uk) m (pidlítok), тіне́йджер m (tinéjdžer) Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi) Welsh: plentyn yn ei arddegau m, person yn ei arddegau m, person ifanc yn ei arddegau m, arddegyn m Yiddish: צענערלינג‎ m (tsenerling) Zazaki: genc

Anagrams

• generate, green tea, renegate

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Danish

Etymology

From English teenager.

Noun

teenager c (definite singular teenageren, indefinite plural teenagere or teenagers, definite plural teenagerne)

1. a teenager

References

• “teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From English teenager.

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

1. teenager

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiˈneiʝeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʝeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tiˈneiʃeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʒeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʒeɾ]

• Rhymes: -eiʝeɾ

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers or teenager)

1. teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)

   Synonym: adolescente

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.