teenager

• teen-ager

From teenage +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.dʒə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtinˌeɪ.dʒəɹ/

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• Hyphenation: teen‧ag‧er

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).

   Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

   Marco's main target market are late teenagers.

   • 2025 January 23, Sam Tobin and Michael Holden, “UK teenager jailed for minimum of 52 years for Southport girls’ murders”, in Reuters‎^[1]:

     A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain’s history.

   • 2025 January 30, Tierney Sneed, “Federal law banning handgun sales 18- to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional, appeals court rules”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Many of the rulings against such limits, including the 5th Circuit opinion issued Wednesday, cite the participation of older teenagers in militias around the time of the Second Amendment’s framing.

• See more synonyms at Thesaurus:teenager

• adolescent

• → Armenian: թինեյջեր (tʻineyǰer)
• → Belarusian: тынэ́йджэр (tynéjdžer)
• → Bulgarian: тийне́йджър (tijnéjdžǎr)
• → Czech: teenager
• → Danish: teenager
• → French: teenager
• → Georgian: თინეიჯერი (tineiǯeri)
• → German: Teenager
• → Hungarian: tinédzser
• → Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
• → Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)
• → Macedonian: тинејџер (tinejdžer)
• → Portuguese: teenager
• → Russian: тине́йджер (tinéjdžer)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тѝнејџер

  Latin script: tìnejdžer

• → Spanish: teenager
• → Ukrainian: тіне́йджер (tinéjdžer)

• “teenager”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “teenager”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “teenager, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

teenager c (definite singular teenageren, indefinite plural teenagere or teenagers, definite plural teenagerne)

1. teenager

• “teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

1. teenager

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

1. teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)

   Synonym: adolescente

• “teenager”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “teenager”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “teenager”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

• Rhymes: -eiʝeɾ

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers or teenager)

1. teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)

   Synonym: adolescente

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.