Definition of preteen
:a boy or girl not yet 13 years old
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Sullivan, who was born in Illinois, spent five of her preteen years in California before moving back to the area with parents Mark and Lillie.
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The preteen was waiting at a bus stop near the intersection of Elysian Fields Avenue and Gentilly Boulevard on Saturday at 11:36 p.m. when a man in a white Ford pickup truck with a blue stripe on its side door approached and offered him a ride.
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From blow-drying to delivering babies, this preteen shines in the world of pygmy goats Cornhole.
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A few minutes before 10 a.m. the street was filled with children on bikes, preteens on roller blades, young moms and dads with strollers, toddlers on tricycles and dogs on leashes.
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As a preteen, Trump Jr.’s relationship with his father was fraught following Trump’s separation from his first wife, Ivana Trump, the mother of eldest children Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.
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Ronald Miller recalled having his bicycle registered as a preteen in the mid- to late-1940s during the city’s voluntary program.
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It's based on a series of video games about Dracula and his labyrinthine, teleporting castle, drenched in Goth Catholic iconography that feels like it was dreamed up by some preteens on speed.
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Those included Clarence, a sweet-faced preteen who wreaked havoc in her classroom on a daily basis: flipping over chairs, interrupting lessons, bullying other students.
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First Known Use of preteen
1938
Recent Examples of preteen from the Web
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Loyde, the mother of a preteen daughter, was found wounded at 9:30 p.m. Sunday at Sunrise Pointe apartments off of Oporto-Madrid Boulevard.
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Subscribers in their 60s, families with preteen children and people of all ethnicities are now in the mix.
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The preteen girls are fascinated; the teenagers, particularly Alicia (Elle Fanning), practice their flirtation skills; and the two teachers, imperious Martha and lonely Edwina (Kirsten Dunst), struggle to hide their own fascination.
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The preteen girls are fascinated; the teenagers, particularly Alicia (Elle Fanning), practice their flirtation skills; and the two teachers, imperious Martha and lonely Edwina (Kirsten Dunst), struggle to hide their own fascination.
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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
PRETEEN Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of preteen for English Language Learners
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: a boy or girl who is 11 or 12 years old
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