teenager Hear it!

teenager Definition

teen·ager (tēnā′jər)

noun

a person in his or her teens

teenager Synonyms

teenager

n.

adolescent, teen, youngster, high school student, youth, young woman, young man.

teenager Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • murder: Hussain, of Grange Road, West Bromwich, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the teenager.
  • kill: A funny, moving, imaginative leap into what life after death might be like for a teenager accidentally killed in a road accident.
  • scream: You just find men succeed better commercially as their fan base are mainly screaming girl teenagers.
  • bore: Jodie is a teenager bored with life, her family, her school and even her friends... until she meets Silas.
  • arrest: Police were called to the incident at about 8pm and subsequently arrested 22 teenagers.
  • urge: Jessica Odubayo DOCTORS and health workers are urging teenagers to tap into free sexual health advice and medical care at a Whitechapel clinic.

Converse of subject

  • write: Find out in this cool cookbook - written by a teenager, for teenagers!

Adjective modifier

  • spotty: In late 1997 as a spotty Northern teenager I bought the CD single ' Tellin ' Stories ' by The Charlatans.
  • rebellious: Mary James is a bright, confident, rebellious teenager who never sticks to the rules.
  • disaffected: Our 1998 report on education for disaffected teenagers, Wasted Youth was a significant influence on government policy.
  • pregnant: Does another family member have a need for a home - possibly sooner than expected - a pregnant teenager?
  • troubled: It's home to Donnie Darko, a brilliant but troubled teenager, plagued by terrifying visions which he alone knows the meaning of.
  • bored: Oliver tries valiantly to interest Carly in the house and the village, but gets the bored teenager ' whatever ' treatment.

Noun used with modifier

  • insurance: Makes up the speech car cheap insurance teenager recognition built auto car cheap insuran insurance intended to do around for almost.

Possessives

  • bedroom: The visit is not an inspection; a teenagers bedroom is a teenager's bedroom!

Possessives

  • today: In the language of today's teenager, he was cool.

Preposition: in

  • 1980s: Henrietta first came in for treatment a very nervous teenager in the 1980s.

Preposition: with

  • arthritis: A similar study in Newcastle revealed unemployment to be twice as common in teenagers with arthritis, than others.
  • epilepsy: Some teenagers with epilepsy may become lazy or deliberately not take their pills as an act of rebellion against their parents over involvement.
  • cancer: Medical staff and family looking after teenagers with cancer know how difficult it can be for patients to eat properly during treatment.
teenager Quotes

The fact that you don't buy a teenager new clothes doesn't mean he isn't going to grow.

—White, George Malcolm

Browse dictionary entries near teenager

  1. teenage
  2. -teen
  3. teen
  4. teeming
  5. teem
  6. teel
  7. tee shirt
  8. tee-hee
  9. tee
  10. tedium
  1. teens
  2. teeny
  3. teeny-bopper
  4. teeny-weeny
  5. teepee
  6. Tees
  7. teeter
  8. teeter-totter
  9. teeterboard
  10. teeth