teenager

See also: Teenager and teen-ager

English

Teenagers.

Alternative forms

• teen-ager

Etymology

From teenage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

teenager (plural teenagers)

1. A person between 13 and 19 years old.

   Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.

   Marco's main target market are late teenagers.

   • 2025 January 23, Reuters, “UK teenager jailed for minimum of 52 years for Southport girls’ murders”, in CNN‎^[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.

Synonyms

• See more synonyms at Thesaurus:teenager

Hypernyms

• adolescent

Coordinate terms

• centenarian
• eightysomething
• fiftysomething
• fortysomething
• hundredsomething
• ninetysomething
• nonagenarian
• octogenarian
• quadragenarian
• quinquagenarian
• semicentenarian
• septuagenarian
• seventysomething
• sexagenarian
• sixtysomething
• supercentenarian
• thirtysomething
• tricenarian
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

Descendants

• → Danish: teenager
• → French: teenager
• → Japanese: ティーネージャー (tīnējā)
• → Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo)
• → Russian: тине́йджер (tinéjdžer)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѝнејџер m

  Roman: tìnejdžer (sh) m

• → Spanish: teenager

Translations

person aged between thirteen and nineteen

• Afrikaans: tiener
• Albanian: ri (sq)
• Arabic: مُرَاهِق m (murāhiq)
• Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani), թինեյջեր (hy) (tʻineyǰer)
• Bashkir: үҫмер (üśmer)
• Belarusian: падле́так m (padljétak), тынэ́йджэр m (tynéjdžer)
• Bulgarian: тийне́йджър m (tijnéjdžǎr)
• Catalan: adolescent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 少年 (zh) (shàonián), 青少年 (zh) (qīngshàonián)

• Cornish: degowek m, degowoges f
• Crimean Tatar: ösmür
• Czech: výrostek m, náctiletý (cs) m, puberťák (cs) m, dospívající m, teenager m
• Danish: teenager (da) c, teenagere c pl
• Dutch: tiener (nl), adolescent (nl) m, puber (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: dekadjarulo, dekkelkjarulo, plenkreskiĝulo, plenkreskiĝulino, adoleskulo, adoleskanto
• Estonian: teismeline, noor (et)
• Faroese: tannáringur (fo) m
• Finnish: teini-ikäinen (fi)
• French: adolescent (fr) m, adolescente (fr) f, ado (fr) m or f
• Galician: zagalón m, galeote m, adolescente (gl) m or f, rapaz (gl) m, rapazolo m, mozo (gl) m, rapazola f, rapariga f, rapaza f, moza f
• Georgian: მოზარდი (mozardi), თინეიჯერი (tineiǯeri)
• German: Jugendlicher (de) m, Jugendliche (de) f
• Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos), έφηβη (el) f (éfivi)
• Greenlandic: inuusuttuaraq
• Hebrew: נַעַר (he) m (ná'ar)
• Hungarian: serdülő (hu), tini (hu), tinédzser (hu), tizenéves (hu), kamasz (hu)
• Icelandic: táningur (is) m, unglingur (is) m
• Indonesian: remaja (id)
• Irish: déagóir m, déagóirí pl
• Italian: giovane (it) c, adolescente (it), ragazzino (it) m, ragazzina (it) f
• Japanese: ティーネージャー (ja) (tīnējā), ティーンエイジャー (ja) (tīn'eijā), 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen), 十代 (ja) (じゅうだい, jūdai)
• Korean: 틴에이저 (tineijeo), 십대(十代) (ko) (sipdae), 10대 (sipdae)
• Lao: ໄວຫນຸ່ມ (wai num)
• Latin: iuvenis (la) c, iuventus m, iuventa f
• Latvian: pusaudzis m, pusaudze f, tīnis m, tīne f
• Macedonian: тинејџер m (tinejdžer), тинејџерка f (tinejdžerka)
• Malay: remaja
• Maori: taitamariki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tenåring (no) m

  Nynorsk: tenåring m

• Ottoman Turkish: اوغلان (oğlan), اوشاق (uşak), شاب (şab) (male teen)
• Persian: نُوْجَوان (fa) (nowjavân)
• Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: adolescente (pt)
• Romagnol: adulescént m
• Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f
• Russian: подро́сток (ru) m (podróstok), тине́йджер (ru) m (tinéjdžer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѝнејџер m

  Roman: tìnejdžer (sh) m

• Slovak: tínedžer m
• Slovene: najstnik m
• Sotho: motjha (st)
• Spanish: adolescente (es) m or f, adolescentes (es) m pl or f pl or pl, ; (colloquial, Mexico): puberto (es) m pubertos m pl, puberta f, pubertas (es) f pl
• Swahili: kijana (sw)
• Swedish: tonåring (sv) c
• Tagalog: lalabintaunin
• Thai: วัยรุ่น (th) (wai-rûn)
• Turkish: genç (tr)
• Ukrainian: підлі́ток (uk) m (pidlítok), тіне́йджер m (tinéjdžer)
• Vietnamese: thiếu niên (vi)
• Welsh: plentyn yn ei arddegau m, person yn ei arddegau m, person ifanc yn ei arddegau m, arddegyn m
• Yiddish: צענערלינג m (tsenerling)
• Zazaki: genc

Anagrams

• Green Tea, renegate, Tea Green, generate, green tea

Danish

Etymology

From English teenager.

Noun

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

1. a teenager

References

• “teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English teenager.

Noun

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)

1. teenager

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teenager.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiˈneiʝeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʝeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tiˈneiʃeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tiˈneiʒeɾ/ [t̪iˈnei̯.ʒeɾ]

• Rhymes: -eiʝeɾ

Noun

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

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

   Synonym: adolescente

Usage notes

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.