teenager

noun

teen·​ag·​er ˈtēn-ˌā-jər How to pronounce teenager (audio)
plural teenagers
: someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
He began singing as a teenager.
Most teenagers firmly believe they have the most embarrassing parents in the world.Allison Pearson
It's been a tumultuous summer for America's hottest and fastest-growing social media app, one that's particularly popular with teenagers.Scott Nover

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His 11 Premier League goals that calendar year were the most by a teenager since Wayne Rooney in 2005, including a hat-trick over Newcastle United that September. The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 His performance as the troubled teenager landed him a Best Actor nomination at the Inside Soap Awards in 1999. Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025 Video obtained by The Charlotte Observer showed jail staff speeding through supervision rounds before Dwight Weller, a man working in the jail, saw the teenager hanging and jolted back. Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025 Culkin, 42, has made his career portraying boys, teenagers, and now adult men not unlike himself: hyperverbose and stubborn, skin-of-their-teeth charming, effortlessly funny, irascible and self-lacerating. Rachel Handler, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for teenager 

Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of teenager was in 1913

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“Teenager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teenager. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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teenager

noun
teen·​ag·​er
ˈtē-ˌnā-jər
: a person in his or her teens
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