TEEN Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

teen

noun

Definition of teen

as in teenager

someone who is between 13 and 19 years old

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Recent Examples of teen Through the settlement, TikTok will make several platform-level changes for teen users in Alabama, including the option for teens to select a non-personalized content feed. — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026 Forgotten Island explores the challenges of growing up and how friendships can evolve as kids become teens and young adults. — Parents, 25 Sep. 2026 The team ran five in-person focus groups with 25 school personnel at a Detroit public high school in order to better understand the mental health of local teens. — Crystal Cederna, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026 Some teens placed in prison, the lawsuit said, should not be there at all. — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 25 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teen

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Noun

As a teenager Raphinha played football in the city’s várzea network (unregulated community tournaments played on clay pitches).

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
Officials have released the name of the teenager who died from injuries sustained in a collision with a vehicle near Middleton High School.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of teenager

Noun

Caleb Flynn’s two preteen daughters seemed nervous after speaking privately with their father days following their mother’s fatal shooting, according to testimony in his murder trial Tuesday.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Some kids depicted in CSAM ads could not be matched, but ads overwhelmingly depicted preteen girls, TTP reported.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of preteen

Noun

Bicks was hired after Harvey could no longer pass as a tween.

— Samantha Bergeson, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
When her adorable tween Sun-woo leaves for camp, single mother So-young (Kim Hyun-joo) waves goodbye as his bus departs, while something ominous hangs in the air.

— Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of tween

Noun

The beach is right there for swimming and paddleboarding when the surf is calm, and the trails through the dunes are manageable for kids old enough to walk them without being carried.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
As a kid, his mother would drop him off at Southwick Country Club in Massachusetts on summer mornings on her way to work.

— Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of kid

Noun

At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.

— Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of teenybopper

Noun

Walker faces Gully in Wednesday's opening round, giving us another veteran-versus-youngster matchup right out of the gate.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
The group of youngsters is led by Celebrini, housemate Will Smith, forwards Michael Misa and Igor Chernyshov, and defenseman Sam Dickinson.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of youngster

Noun

Getty An island that had spent decades pairing glamour with license was perhaps the wrong place to entrust an adolescent to unusually permissive relatives.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
One adolescent possibly had contact with the bat, officials said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of adolescent

Noun

The juvenile was arrested on Monday and charged with first-degree threatening and breach of peace, according to Barreira.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Authorities searched throughout the evening for a missing juvenile before suspending recovery efforts overnight.

— Kelsie Cairns , Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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