Teenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-teen

1. Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

使用する際の注意点

In Internet slang usage, the “teen” may be written out in letters following a number, for example: 3teen, 5teen, 8teen, meaning thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen respectively.

派生語

アナグラム

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

語源 1

Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

名詞

teen (plural teens)

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).

   In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving.

   NTSB, NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Dangers of Marijuana for Teen Drivers, 18 July 2024

   • 2003, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada, FCN, →ISBN, page 262:

     Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly  ...

   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

派生語

派生した語

• → Bulgarian: тийн (tijn)
• → Spanish: teen

形容詞

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   teen fashion

語源 2

From 中期英語 tene, from 古期英語 tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teun, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

名詞

teen (plural teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:

     The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:

     Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:

     Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget

   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:

     With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:

     That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

語源 3

From 中期英語 tenen, from 古期英語 tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

動詞

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:

     Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

語源 4

From 中期英語 tenen, tinen, from 古期英語 tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

動詞

teen (third-person singular simple present teens, present participle teening, simple past and past participle teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
   • 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:

     Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.

   • 1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75:

     It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”

   • 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244:

     She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.

参照

• “teen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

参考

• teen patti

アナグラム

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet