Antonyms for teens


Grammar : Noun
Spell : teenz
Phonetic Transcription : tinz


Definition of teens

Origin :
  • 1670s (plural), "teen-age years of a person," formed from -teen taken as a separate word. As "decade of years comprising numbers ending in -teen," from 1889.
  • noun teenager
Example sentences :
  • She was no older than Dilly, but she had seemed matronly in her teens.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • It was the plaid belonging to Stella Hardy, who had died in her teens.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • He was getting as incorrigibly sentimental as a girl in her teens!
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • If we are ever to reach the Heights of Maturity we must spend ten years in the Teens.
  • Extract from : « Almost A Man » by Mary Wood-Allen
  • They had ventured to apple parings together when not yet out of their 'teens.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • Boys not yet in their teens staggered by half-tipsy, or lounged at the doors of gin-shops.
  • Extract from : « Shawl-Straps » by Louisa M. Alcott
  • Girl gets into her teens, and her self-consciousness is born.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • You are only doing what most boys in your position do in their teens.
  • Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
  • He was amazed to find among them a lot of boys and girls not out of their teens.
  • Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
  • (I was not far in my teens when I had this experience, but an old man now).
  • Extract from : « The Stoker's Catechism » by W. J. Connor

Synonyms for teens

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