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teenager

noun
/ˈtiːnˌeɪ.dʒəː/UK/ˈtinˌeɪ.dʒɚ/CA/ˈtiːnˌæ̝ɪ.dʒəː/

Etymology

From teenage + -er.

  1. inherited from agen
  2. derived from *h₂eyu-✻
  3. derived from aetas
  4. derived from *aetāticum✻
  5. derived from eage
  6. inherited from age
  7. compounded as teenage — “-teen + age”
  8. formed as teenager — “teenage + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).

    • Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
    • Marco's main target market are late teenagers.
    • A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain’s history.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at teenager. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at teenager. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at teenager

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA