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# teenager

noun (a teenager, teenagers)

«teenager» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A person between 13 and 19 years old. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, teenagers are older brothers, sisters, cousins or babysitters; they go to secondary or high school. In maths, the «teens» are the ages that end in «-teen»: thirteen to nineteen, so a teenager is 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 — 7 different ages. In health lessons, the teenage years bring puberty and big body changes. Phrases: «a teenage boy/girl», «in your teens», «teenage years».

### Examples

- My cousin is a teenager; he's fifteen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x1)
- When you turn thirteen, you become a teenager. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x2)
- Teenagers often like to sleep late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x3)
- Our babysitter is a responsible teenager. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x4)
- The film is for teenagers and adults, not young children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x5)
- In ten years, I'll be a teenager no more. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x6)
- Teenagers go to high school or secondary school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x7)
- My sister became a teenager last month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Adjective: «teenage» (a teenage girl); informal «teen». Trap: 11 and 12 are not teens, even though «eleven» and «twelve» sound like it; only thirteen to nineteen end in «-teen».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «teenager» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«teenager» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/teenager.html) on Mova free.