TEENAGER (teenager)

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Irregular inflected form: teenager   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does teenager mean? 

• TEENAGER (noun)
  The noun TEENAGER has 1 sense:

1. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

  Familiarity information: TEENAGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEENAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adolescent; stripling; teen; teenager

Hypernyms ("teenager" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teenager"):

chebab (a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis)

mod (a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers)

pachuco (a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes)

punk; punk rocker (a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture)

rocker (a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles)

young buck; young man (a teenager or a young adult male)

 Context examples 

It affects primarily teenagers and young adults.

(Aggressive NK-Cell Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

It can lead children and teenagers to feel tense and afraid.

(Bullying, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Growing children and teenagers need more calcium than young adults.

(Calcium, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

Anyone can get acne, but it is common in teenagers and young adults.

(Acne, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A soft tissue tumor that is most common in older children and teenagers.

(Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Dictionary)

Adults, babies, teenagers, pregnant women, and those with weak immune systems tend to get sicker from it.

(Chickenpox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Some children begin puberty or are close to it before they are teenagers.

(Child Development, NIH)

Drug abuse in children and teenagers may pose a greater hazard than in older people.

(Drugs and Young People, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

They can be especially debilitating in teenagers and often disrupt everyday activities, such as school, music and sports.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Teenagers who reach for objects, such as food or makeup, while driving increase their risk of crashing nearly seven times, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)