"teens" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tiːnz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-teens.wav [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-teens.wav [US]
Rhymes: -iːnz Etymology: The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen. Etymology templates: {{m|en|thirteen}} thirteen, {{m|en|nineteen}} nineteen, {{m|en|teen}} teen Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} teens
  1. plural of teen Tags: form-of, plural Form of: teen
    Sense id: en-teens-en-noun-Lwikd9tv

Noun

IPA: /tiːnz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-teens.wav [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-teens.wav [US]
Rhymes: -iːnz Etymology: The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen. Etymology templates: {{m|en|thirteen}} thirteen, {{m|en|nineteen}} nineteen, {{m|en|teen}} teen Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} teens pl (plural only)
  1. The numbers between thirteen and nineteen. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive): padsmiti (english: 11 to 19) [masculine, plural] (Latvian)
    Sense id: en-teens-en-noun-xKzxWIdp Disambiguation of 'the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive': 64 4 11 21
  2. The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Decades Translations (time of life between 13 and 19 years old): teenageår [plural] (Danish), teini-ikä (Finnish), pusaudža gadi [masculine, plural] (Latvian), padsmitnieka gadi [masculine, plural] (Latvian), tenår [plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), tenår [plural] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tonåren (Swedish), gençlik (Turkish), підлітко́вий вік (pidlitkóvyj vik) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-teens-en-noun-iO91fmHi Disambiguation of Decades: 16 3 59 21 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 2 60 32 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 3 51 39 1 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 17 5 32 23 24 Disambiguation of 'time of life between 13 and 19 years old': 9 71 6 14
  3. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (second decade of a century): desmitie (10's) [masculine, plural] (Latvian), tūkstoš deviņsimt desmitie (1910's) [masculine, plural] (Latvian), divtūkstoš desmitie (2010's) [masculine, plural] (Latvian), tonåren (Swedish), деся́ті (desjáti) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-teens-en-noun-TFM1ONAw Disambiguation of 'second decade of a century': 3 7 90 0
  4. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 10 and 19. Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-teens-en-noun-xlkAuYWK Categories (other): English pluralia tantum Topics: temperature
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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  "etymology_text": "The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "teens pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s"
    },
    {
      "word": "2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s"
    },
    {
      "word": "00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s"
    },
    {
      "word": "'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s"
    },
    {
      "word": "00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's"
    },
    {
      "word": "zeros"
    },
    {
      "word": "zeroes"
    },
    {
      "word": "aughts"
    },
    {
      "word": "noughties"
    },
    {
      "word": "oughts · oneties"
    },
    {
      "word": "tens"
    },
    {
      "word": "teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The number of people at the meeting was in the teens."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The numbers between thirteen and nineteen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thirteen",
          "thirteen"
        ],
        [
          "nineteen",
          "nineteen"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She is in her teens."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "teenage",
          "teenage"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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):",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decade",
          "decade"
        ],
        [
          "oneties",
          "oneties"
        ],
        [
          "tens",
          "tens"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English pluralia tantum"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The range between 10 and 19."
      ],
      "qualifier": "rates",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 10 and 19."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "temperature"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/tiːnz/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːnz"
    },
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "english": "11 to 19",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "padsmiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "teenageår"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "word": "teini-ikä"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "pusaudža gadi"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "padsmitnieka gadi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "tenår"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "tenår"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "word": "tonåren"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "word": "gençlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pidlitkóvyj vik",
      "sense": "time of life between 13 and 19 years old",
      "word": "підлітко́вий вік"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "desmitie (10's)"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "tūkstoš deviņsimt desmitie (1910's)"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "divtūkstoš desmitie (2010's)"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "tonåren"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "desjáti",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "деся́ті"
    }
  ],
  "word": "teens"
}
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