teenage

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology: From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
“Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.”
“It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.”

Etymology: From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.