tweenagerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtwiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

名詞

tweenager (plural tweenagers)

1. A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally ten to twelve years old.
   • 1994, Mary Manz Simon, How to Parent Your “Tweenager”, page 6:

     Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”

同意語

• See Thesaurus:preteen

関連する語

• tween

参照

• “tweenager”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Michael Quinnion (28 April 2001), “Tweenager”, in World Wide Words