teenagernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtiːnˌeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈtiːnˌeɪ.dʒɚ/informal teenA2 a young person between 13 and 19 years old:
The magazine is aimed at teenagers and young adults.
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- He was a bit of a rebel when he was a teenager and dyed his hair pink and had his nose pierced.
- As a teenager, Clare was always getting on the wrong side of her mother.
- Many parents find it hard to relate to their children when they are teenagers.
- He found it very hard teaching a class full of stroppy teenagers.
- It's pathetic to see 50-year-old rock stars prancing around on stage as if they were still teenagers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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teenage
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˈtiːnˌeɪdʒ/us/ˈtiːnˌeɪdʒ/also teenaged, uk/-eɪdʒd/us, informal teen
Examples
- The government is clamping down on teenage drinking.
- The magazine, which gives frank advice about sex and romance, is aimed at the teenage market.
- A lot more frankness is needed in sex education if we are to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.
- Her latest book is a humorous look at teenage life.
- Do you think it's true that teenage girls are less self-confident than their male peers?
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a teenage nephew