teens

The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.

• IPA^(key): /tiːnz/

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• Rhymes: -iːnz

teens

1. plural of teen

teens pl (plural only)

1. The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.

   The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.

2. The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

   She is in her teens.

3. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.

   I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!

   • 2010, Michael G Cunningham, “The 20th Century's aughts and teens: OPERETTA”, in Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979):
4. (temperature, rates) The range between 10 and 19.

   Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.

• ESnet, Enets, NEETs, Stene, Tenes, enset, neets, seent, senet, sente, steen, tense

teens c

1. definite genitive singular of te

teens m pl or f pl

1. plural of teen