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Definition: Teenager |
TeenagerNoun1. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TeenagerSynonyms: adolescent (n), stripling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Teenager |
| English words defined with "teenager": bang up ♦ depart ♦ leave ♦ mod ♦ pachuco, pull up stakes, punk, punk rocker ♦ rocker ♦ smash, smash up, sobbingly. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Teenager" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (teenager), German (bobbysoxer, teenager). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) Being a teenager sucks. (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) She's a teenager. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Well, what's the point of being a teenager if you can't dress weird? (Peggy Sue Got Married; writing credit: Jerry Leichtling; Arlene Sarner) | |
Lyrics | Like a Friday fashion show teenager ("Imitation of Life"; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | It is not what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It's how he found out. (references; author: unknown) A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Teenager (1974) The Fugitive and the Teenager (1971) Ein Teenager flippt aus (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The seizures usually stop by the time the child becomes a teenager. (references) | |
But sometimes they don't appear until the person is a teenager or an adult. (references) | ||
Infection in a young child or teenager may indicate sexual activity or sexual abuse. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Training a disabled teenager costs an average of $482 per year while training a non-disabled teenager costs $145. China plans to invest more funds for special education and develop regulations to help disabled youths find jobs after they receive training. (references) |
Human Rights | South Africa | In May a black teenager was beaten to death near the northern town of Pietersburg in an attack that appeared to be racially motivated. (references) |
Zimbabwe | During the year, a civilian teenager in Masvingo province near the border with Mozambique reportedly was killed by a landmine explosion. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Madonna | When I was a teenager I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to move to New York and be a dancer. That was my goal, and that was my dream. It was pretty small. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Well, I was a non-sexually active teenager in any capacity. I was very popular in high school, I was the homecoming queen, I was senior class president. I was not at all thinking of dating in any way, shape or form. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Teenager" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Teenager" is used about 853 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 853 | 8,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "teenager": teenager-is. | |
Ending with "teenager": pre-teenager. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
teenager | 2,735 |
teenager job | 700 |
summer job for teenager | 281 |
nude teenager | 267 |
naked teenager | 194 |
teenager sex | 169 |
parenting teenager | 168 |
sexy teenager | 128 |
poem teenager | 100 |
bedroom for teenager | 95 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "teenager"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ri (adolescent, fledgeling, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, original, red-hot, rising, stripling, teener, young, youngling, youthful). (various references) | |
Arabic | مراهق (adolescent), المراهق (hobbledehoy, teener), شخص يافع. (various references) | |
Chinese | 少年 (juvenile, Nipper, Nippers, teenage). (various references) | |
Czech | výrostek (adolescent, stripling, youngster). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوجوان(ازده تا91ساله). (various references) | |
French | adolescent (teenage). (various references) | |
German | Teenager (bobbysoxer), Jugendliche (adolescent, juvenile forms, juvenilely, teenage, young person, youth, youthful), Jüngling (lad, youngling, youngster, youth), Backfisch. (various references) | |
Greek | νέα 13-19 ετών, νέοσ 13-19 ετών, νεάρα, νεαρόσ (young, youngish, youthful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתב'ר (adolescent, juvenescent), מב י "עשר", עשראי, ב'יל "עשר", טפש עשר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tizenéves (teen age, teenage), tini (teeny-bopper). (various references) | |
Italian | adolescente (adolescent, hobbledehoy, juvenescent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail fin, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ティーンエージャ , ティーンエイジャー . (various references) | |
Korean | 틴에이 . (various references) | |
Manx | jeigeyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eenagertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jovem entre os 13 e os 19, adolescente (adolescent, flapper, juvenile, sapling, stripling). (various references) | |
Russian | подросток (Borstal boy, juvenile, stripling, teen, teen-ager, teener, teenybopper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tinejdžer, omladinac (youth). (various references) | |
Spanish | adolescente (adolescent, bobby soxer, teen, teenage). (various references) | |
Swedish | tonåring (adolescent, teen). (various references) | |
Thai | บุคคลที่มีอายุระหว่าง 13-19 ปี. (various references) | |
Turkish | genç (adolescent, gossoon, green, junior, juvenile, sapling, teen, teeny, whelp, young, young man, youngish, youngster, youth, youthful), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, adolescent, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, laddie, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, sprig, stripling, teen, teeny, whelp, young man, youngster, youth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "teenager": teenagers. (additional references) | |
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"Teenager" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teager, teanage, teenaget, tenager, treenager, treneague. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: generate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: etagere, grantee, greaten, negater, reagent, teenage. | |
-2 letters: argent, enrage, entera, entree, ergate, eterne, garnet, genera, gerent, neater, negate, regent, renege, retene, teener. | |
-3 letters: agene, agent, agree, anger, antre, arete, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate, enter, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, green, greet, ragee, ranee, range, regna, rente, retag, targe, tenge, terga, terne, treen. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, ante, earn, eger, erne, etna, gaen, gane, gate, gear, gene, gent, geta, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, near, neat, rage, rang, rant, rate, rent, rete, tang, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tern, tree. | |
-5 letters: age, ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eng, era, ere, erg, ern, eta, gae, gan, gar, gat, gee, gen, get, nae, nag, nee, net, rag, ran, rat, ree, reg, ret, tae, tag, tan, tar, tea, tee, teg, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: agreement, generated, generates, greatened, teenagers. | |
+2 letters: agreements, degenerate, generative, greenheart, percentage, regenerate. | |
+3 letters: degenerated, degenerates, derangement, enlargement, greatnesses, greenhearts, percentages, peregrinate, redefeating, regenerated, regenerates, regenerator, reintegrate, renegotiate, rerepeating, sergeanties, tragedienne. | |
+4 letters: aggrievement, decelerating, degenerately, degenerating, degeneration, degenerative, demagnetizer, derangements, disagreement, endangerment, enlargements, estrangement, exenterating, generalities, generatrices, interrogatee, magnetometer, outgeneraled, peregrinated, peregrinates, predesignate, racketeering, redintegrate, reengagement, regenerately, regenerating, regeneration, regenerative, regenerators, reintegrated, reintegrates, renegotiable, renegotiated, renegotiates, revegetating, revegetation, seronegative, tragediennes, unregenerate, unsegregated. | |
+5 letters: aggregateness, aggrievements, atherogeneses, atherogenesis, beleaguerment, decerebrating, degenerations, dehydrogenate, demagnetizers, desegregating, desegregation, disagreements, electromagnet, embranglement, encouragement, endangerments, energetically, estrangements, etherealizing, featheredging, interrogatees, laryngectomee, magnetometers, magnetosphere, nondegenerate, nonsegregated, perseverating, predesignated, predesignates, rearrangement, redintegrated, redintegrates, reengagements, regenerations, reintegrative, reinvestigate, resegregating, resegregation, revegetations, reverberating, strangenesses, telemarketing, teratogeneses, teratogenesis, transgendered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 65 6E 61 67 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . . -. .- --. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100101 01101110 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e e n a g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0065 006E 0061 0067 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471718067737184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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