teens
/tiːnz/ noun A2- The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive). · The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
- The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years. · She is in her teens.· a youngster just out of his teens
- 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!
- The range between 10 and 19. · Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
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She said we couldn’t be too careful what habits we formed and what ideals we acquired in our teens, because by the time we were twenty our characters would be developed and the foundation laid for our whole future life.
“I can scarcely realize that I’m in my teens.
Miss Stacy took all us girls who are in our teens down to the brook last Wednesday, and talked to us about it.
“I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father’s death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast.
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