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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teenager
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Nearly half of black teenagers in the city of Chicago fail to graduate from high school.
▪ Among black teenagers 82 percent of all births were illegitimate in 1980.
▪ Below on the street, near numbers 1408 and 1411, black teenagers played outside.
▪ The next day some white teenagers retaliated on the heads of some black teenagers.
old
▪ Then they run through role-playing and skits, taught by respected older teenagers, to learn the art of refusal.
▪ And then there were the responses, the questions sent in by schoolchildren ranging in age from seven years old to teenagers.
▪ I will discuss the priorities for older children and teenagers in chapter 10.
▪ Some older teenagers are married or in stable relationships within which having a baby is a wanted event.
▪ Although attempted suicide has increased among older teenagers, the rate is still well below that for adults.
▪ This system can also work for older teenagers, but if you are over sixteen you are not entitled to free tutoring.
▪ It may still be important to say no, on those grounds, even to older teenagers.
▪ Glandular fever is an infectious disease that hits many older children, teenagers and young adults.
young
▪ The backs of the trucks are jammed with young men and teenagers pressed against wooden slats.
▪ But since they had married, as young impulsive teenagers, his charm had evaporated.
▪ Contexts which will appeal to young teenagers.
▪ Alternatively, it can be used as an independent, project-based video course for young teenagers.
▪ The game continues to attract young teenagers whose education is disrupted by the tantalising prospect that they will become professional players.
▪ It will thrill younger children but seem standard fare to young teenagers.
▪ The play, written by Marie Jones, examines the problems and pressures facing young teenagers today.
■ VERB
read
▪ Her son was treated for cuts and bruises. Read in studio Three teenagers have been charged with aggravated vehicle taking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ River Phoenix became a famous actor while still a teenager.
▪ The survey shows that four out of five teenagers have experimented with illegal drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gap stores has hired as its primary image-maker a man who helped convince thousands of teenagers to buy Calvin Klein perfume.
▪ Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager.
▪ I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy.
▪ Imagine all the trouble hordes of tots and teenagers can get into with nothing to do all day but hang around.
▪ Several teenagers have died after smoking or drinking the leaves or seeds of the datura shrub, found in woodland.
▪ Take time to talk to your teenagers.
▪ The Teesside-born star trained as a Methodist local preacher when he was a teenager in Middlesbrough, but is now an atheist.
▪ Very often teenager girls become physically inhibited.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teenager

Teenager \Teen"ag`er\ (t[=e]n"[=a]j`[~e]r), n. a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teenager

also teen ager, teen-ager; 1922, derived noun from teenage (q.v.). The earlier word for this was teener, attested in American English from 1894, and teen had been used as a noun to mean "teen-aged person" in 1818, though this was not common before 20c.

Wiktionary
teenager

n. (context countable English) Literally, a person from thir''teen'' to nine''teen'' who is in their teens; an adolescent.

WordNet
teenager

n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling]

Wikipedia
Teenager (Jane Siberry album)

Teenager is a 1996 album by Jane Siberry.

It was her first release for Sheeba Records, the independent label she established for herself after the end of her contract with Reprise Records. The album is composed of songs that Siberry had written as a teenager, but had never subsequently released on record.

Teenager (Fujifabric album)

Teenager is the third studio album by Fujifabric, released on January 23, 2008, on the Capitol Records label. The majority of the songs featured on the album are written by Masahiko Shimura, with the exception of "Kinen Shashin", "B.O.I.P." ("Battle of Inokashira Park") and "Mabataki", which are written by guitarist Sōichirō Yamauchi. The song "Chocolate Panic" is co-written by Roger Joseph Manning Jr. who is also featured on the track. "Hoshifuru Yoru ni Nattara" is co-written by keyboard player Daisuke Kanazawa.

Teenager (disambiguation)

A teenager is a person aged from puberty to maturity (ages ending with "teen").

Teenager or teenagers may also refer to:

Teenager (The Thrills album)

Teenager is the third album from Irish band The Thrills. It was released on July 22, 2007 in Ireland and three days later in Europe. The first single from the album was " Nothing Changes Around Here". The second release taken from the album was "The Midnight Choir" which was released as a download-only single. Teenager reached No. 48 on the UK Albums Chart.

The album was demoed and written in Ireland, with the band recording and mixing the album in Vancouver and California.

The Thrills were dropped by EMI after the poor sales performance of Teenager.

The cover photograph, Wild Horses, 1979, is by Joseph Szabo.

Teenager (band)

Teenager was an art rock, punk dance band formed in 2004 by Nick Littlemore as a side project from his electronic dance group Pnau, and Phillipa "Pip" Brown (later known as Ladyhawke) on guitar (ex-member of New Zealand band Two Lane Blacktop).

In 2006 their debut single "Pony" was issued ahead of the album, Thirteen, which was followed by a second single, "Bound and Gagged". The album had been recorded over three years in studios in Sydney, London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. The track "Pony" is featured in the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. It also features Aiden Nemeth from Wolfmother on guitar. By 2007 Brown had left to pursue her solo career as Ladyhawke, and Littlemore returned to his work with Pnau and later also formed Empire of the Sun.

Teenager (Jung Joon Young album)

TEENAGER is the second EP by South Korean rock singer, Jung Joon-young, released by CJ E&M on June 26, 2014, as the follow-up to his 1st mini album, which was released in October, 2013.

It contains 6 tracks such as the title track “Teenager.” and other tracks “내가나에게To Me,” “친구Friends,” “이빨Lip Service,” “Hold On,” and “돛단배Sailboat.” All songs in this album were composed and produced by Jung Joon Young himself. He also participated in the design and production of the album's concept, cover picture, and all other minor details regarding the album.

Since Teenager is filled with alternative rock genre which is not a mainstream in Korean music industry, it hasn’t been a big hit compare to his 1st mini album which topped on numerous online charts. However it did relatively well on the physical sales; it ranked third on Gaon weekly album chart in its first week of release as well as tenth on the monthly chart in its first month. It has sold over 10,000 copies within its three weeks of release.

As he stated about this album: "I know some aren't into rock, but I'm glad to be doing what I want to do. I know rock is not a popular genre, but it can be, if my music is widely heard." Regardless of the record charts, he is satisfied with his album just like his fans and supporters who really want him to do the music that he wants to do.

Usage examples of "teenager".

Using it as a club, he began hammering disrespectfully on the nearest Anointed, a male teenager with muscular shoulders and a terrible bone-deep wound across the entire front of his body, which had probably killed him.

The teenager looked, pointing to a circular blemish on the feather-edge timber wall of the barn.

Like many Americans, therefore, teenagers respond to ads not just by buying things but by making them a part of their own lives.

A teenager armed with an AK-47 performed a crude approximation of snapping to attention as Hsiao opened the door and went inside.

Raf was still writing headlines in his head when Kamila walked over to another trolley and pulled back the sheet, exposing the face and shoulders of a blonde teenager.

When Lem claimed that the youngest of their number, a teenager named Kerlew, had been outcast for being a weakling and just downright strange, Farrell objected.

It was a red Lada that had been hand-painted and had to belong to a teenager.

For example, an orthodontist near my home decided that the baby boomer niche represented a viable secondary market for his practice, the primary market being teenagers and young adults.

I was a teenager when Pagen was in his heyday He was one beautiful man: She blushed, then frowned again.

Turner hitched a ride in the pedicab of some teenagers from a waterfront kampong.

She worked three to eleven as an assistant manager at the Quik Pik on La Rue Dumas in Bayou Breaux and figured she deserved a beer or two after eight hours of clearing gas pumps, selling lottery tickets, and running teenagers off before they could shoplift the place into bankruptcy.

At worst, specialists in the new field of SRA warned, teenagers who started out innocently playing with Ouija boards or reading books on paganism and magic could be drawn into rites involving the use of dangerous symbols, and from there into vandalism, animal mutilations, ritualistic abuse of children, and suicide, or even murder.

A couple of the teenagers had agreed to be placed in the Maidens of Saille House of Orphans, some had been released to vanish back into Downwind rubble.

Gillette, in his persona as the alienated Texas teenager, told Triple-X about how he defeated Windows screen saver passcodes and let the hacker give him advice on better ways to do it.

Although I knew Cathy Scoggins was middle-aged, she looked like a hyperactive teenager.