TEENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teens mean? 

• TEENS (noun)
  The noun TEENS has 2 senses:

1. the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20

2. all the numbers that end in -teen

  Familiarity information: TEENS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Holonyms ("teens" is a part of...):

adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

All the numbers that end in -teen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

 Context examples 

During childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone.

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

For most kids and teens, technology is an important part of their lives.

(Internet Safety, NIH)

In addition, the findings support investigation of IV BCG administration in clinical trials to determine whether this route improves its effectiveness in teens and adults.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

"I don't call myself a child, and I'm not in my teens yet," observed Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Others have a milder version of the disease that doesn't show up until they are teens or young adults.

(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Until recently, the common type of diabetes in children and teens was type 1.

(Diabetes in Children and Teens, NIH)

They can also start in the late teens or early adulthood.

(Dystonia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Mono occurs most often in teens and young adults.

(Infectious Mononucleosis, NIH)

In humans, this process occurs as the brain develops to full maturity, in the late teens to early adulthood.

(A biological mechanism for schizophrenia, NIH)

During their first year of independent driving, teens often engage in many different activities behind the wheel that could lead to a crash.

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