teenager

«teenager» in Mova's school dictionary: A person between 13 and 19 years old — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a teenager, teenagers)

meaning for a pupil

A person between 13 and 19 years old. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, teenagers are older brothers, sisters, cousins or babysitters; they go to secondary or high school. In maths, the «teens» are the ages that end in «-teen»: thirteen to nineteen, so a teenager is 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 — 7 different ages. In health lessons, the teenage years bring puberty and big body changes. Phrases: «a teenage boy/girl», «in your teens», «teenage years».

examples

• My cousin is a teenager; he's fifteen. tree →
• When you turn thirteen, you become a teenager. tree →
• Teenagers often like to sleep late. tree →
• Our babysitter is a responsible teenager. tree →
• The film is for teenagers and adults, not young children. tree →
• In ten years, I'll be a teenager no more. tree →
• Teenagers go to high school or secondary school. tree →
• My sister became a teenager last month. tree →

note

Countable. Adjective: «teenage» (a teenage girl); informal «teen». Trap: 11 and 12 are not teens, even though «eleven» and «twelve» sound like it; only thirteen to nineteen end in «-teen».

In the corpora

• Nicotine is very addictive, so smokers feel uncomfortable until they have the next one, and most started as teenagers.
• What he can see is teenagers chatting after school.
• A grown-up's or teenager's profile on a streaming app shows films for their age, not yours.
• A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child.
• "Threenager" means a defiant three-year-old acting like a moody teenager (jokey).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «teenager» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.