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Definition of preteen
: a boy or girl not yet 13 years old
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Recent Examples of preteen from the Web
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A Florida woman is facing an additional 14 counts after allegedly having a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old boy and having the preteen’s child, PEOPLE confirms.
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And the rest of the young students are doing their own dance of desire — mostly just trying to earn his friendship or quasi-paternal attention by giving him reading or fresh green beans, or whatever a preteen imagines might work.
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Her kids are a preteen and an adolescent — a boy and a girl.
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Stores are not trying to manipulate preteens into buying phones so they can get addicted.
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At 12-years-old, Savannah made the brave decision to come out as lesbian to her parents Josh and Heather, but the Utah preteen didn't stop there.
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While its more ridiculous moments would definitely appeal to a younger preteen, its graphic images would not.
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The show’s formula follows a model developed on the competition dance circuit, a robust industry that hops from one convention center to the next across the country, offering master classes and contests aimed at teenage and preteen dancers.
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The victims had gathered at the 21,000-seat venue to see the pop musician Ariana Grande, a former Nickelodeon TV star whose fan base predominantly includes preteen and teenage girls.
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First Known Use of preteen
1938
preteen
Definition of preteen
1 : relating to or produced for children especially in the 9 to 12 year-old age group preteen fashions
2 : being younger than 13
Recent Examples of preteen from the Web
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Jamie Lynn Spears' daughter Maddie celebrated her 9th birthday over the weekend with a pool party mostly comprised of preteen girls, and two special guests.
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Ms. Grande, 23, one of America’s younger pop divas, attracts a following of primarily teen and preteen girls.
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Naturally, these reports about Steinfeld and Bieber flipped the preteen pop world and celebrity gossip news cycle upside down for 24 hours.
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Erica was born the year after IBM and Apple began mass-producing personal computers, and her preteen years started right around the time the Berlin Wall came down.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'preteen'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of preteen
1929
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: a boy or girl who is 11 or 12 years old
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