teenとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

名詞

teen (複数形 teens)

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.

派生語

形容詞

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   teen fashion

語源 2

From Middle English tene, from 古期英語 tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

名詞

teen (複数形 teens)

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, suffering

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto V:

     In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv:

     The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 2:

     Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance, […]

   • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine:

     Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget

   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night:

     With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI:

     That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

語源 3

From Middle English tenen, from 古期英語 tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

動詞

teen (三人称単数 現在形 teens, 現在分詞 teening, 過去形および過去分詞形 teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde

語源 4

From Middle English tenen, tinen, from 古期英語 tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

動詞

teen (三人称単数 現在形 teens, 現在分詞 teening, 過去形および過去分詞形 teened)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
   • 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75:

     Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.

   • 1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75:

     It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”

   • 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244:

     She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.

参照

• teen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet

接尾辞

-teen

1. Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

派生語