teen1 nounteen2 adjective
teenteen1 /tiːn/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Marijuana use by teens doubled between 1992 and 1995.
- The teen said yes, Arancibia told police, and the three teens surrounded the couple.
- The law exempts youths accompanied by adults, working teens and married teens.
Longman Language Activatorways of saying how old someone is
· Julie's going to be thirty next month.· When I was eighteen, I thought I knew everything.· Luke is three and Marie is seven.
· Simone is nearly fifteen years old.· My sister got married when she was thirty-eight years old.
formal · He was tall, well-dressed and appeared to be about thirty-five years of age.· Elephants do not become sexually active until they are fifteen to eighteen years of age.
used especially in written descriptions: · The child, aged ten, was last seen in a park on Bishop Street.· A recent survey of youths aged thirteen to eighteen shows that twelve percent are smoking regularly. · Females aged eighteen to thirty-four have an increased risk of contracting the disease.
(=aged 5/10/35 etc) used especially in written descriptions: · His ninety-five-year-old great-grandfather still rides his bike every day.· She has to pick up her twelve-year-old son from school at 3:30.· Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Parker will be the soloist in tonight's concert.
use this especially to say what someone who is a particular age can do: · If a man of fifty-five loses his job, he'll never get another.· It's so simple, a child of four could use it.
use this to give a general idea of how old someone is: · He was tall, with brown hair and dark eyes - I'd say he was in his forties.early twenties/30s etc: · In my early twenties, I applied for my first job as a teacher.mid-twenties/30s etc: · She's retired, but she's only in her mid-50s.late twenties/30s etc: · A lot of women in their late twenties start thinking about having a family.
to have recently become 20, 30 etc: · McClelland recently turned forty.
informal between the ages of 20 and 29, 30 and 39 etc: · a forty-something couple from Orlando
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
We moved to York when I was in my early teens.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1American English informal a teenager2teens [plural] your teens is the period of your life when you are between 13 and 19 years oldbe in your teens We moved to York when I was in my early teens.· Scar tissue all right; a birthmark she'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant.· By her early teens she was under contract to a management firm.· His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure.· He comes to collect her when she's in her early teens, and makes her his wife.· People tend to read Rebecca in their early teens.· Later, in my early teens, I read each of themthe first of my many self-imposed reading programs.· During his early teens, McKenzie was a competent soccer player but, as he grew his nimble-footed agility was lost.· By his early teens he was an accomplished pianist and guitarist.
· Iced teas, especially Snapple and Arizona, have been hits with consumers in their late teens and early 20s.· Tijuana in the late teens already was developing the reputation of a wide-open town.· Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face.· She could have been in her late teens, twenties, or perhaps early thirties.· We particularly need people in their late teens - early twenties age group - to promote our young, slim image!· The trick facing the milk industry is to keep kids in the milk habit into their late teens.· As I got nearer, I saw they were young people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties.· There were four black guys in the car, late teens to early 20s.
She was in her teens when she met him.early/late teens We moved to York when I was in my early teens.teen1 nounteen2 adjective
teenteen2 adjective [only before noun] informal relating to teenagers or used by teenagers SYN teenage: a rock star and teen idol a teen magazine