English[edit]
Etymology 1edit
from . of .
Nounedit
teen (plural )
- A teenager.
teen (not )
- Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
- teen fashion
Translationsedit
teenager — see teenager
Etymology 2edit
From Middle English , from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.
Nounedit
teen (plural )
- () Grief; sorrow; trouble.
- Synonyms: , ,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene.…, London: … for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC , book III, canto V:
- 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.
- Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke 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
- ( or ) Vexation; anger; hate.
Translationsedit
grief, sorrow, suffering
Etymology 3edit
From Middle English , from Old English tēonian, (“to slander, vex”), from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.
Verbedit
teen (third-person singular simple present , present participle , simple past and past participle )
- (, ) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
- (, ) To become angry or distressed
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde.
Etymology 4edit
See (“to shut”).
Verbedit
teen (third-person singular simple present , present participle , simple past and past participle )
- (, , provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
-tene, EENT, NEET, neet
Dutch[edit]
Etymology 1edit
From Middle Dutch , from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in ), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare where the same has happened, or which went the opposite way.
teen m (plural , n)
- toe
toon (dated, dialectal)
- grote teen
- lange tenen
- teengewricht
- teenschimmel
- teensok
Descendantsedit
- Afrikaans:
- → Papiamentu: (from the diminutive)
Etymology 2edit
From Middle Dutch , teene, from Old Dutch *tein, *tēn, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz.
teen f or n (plural , n)
- twig, thin branch
- Synonym:
- clove (of garlic)
- () A bundle of twigs.
wilgenteen
eten, neet