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.

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, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (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) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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.

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