teenとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager.

名詞

teen (複数形 teens)

1. A teenager.

形容詞

teen (not comparable)

1. Of or having to do with teenagers.

   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: Printed [by 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, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by 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 slander, vex”), 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

See tine (“to shut”).

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, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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

アナグラム

• -tene, EENT, NEET, neet