TEENER Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

teener

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Definition of teener

as in teen

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Noun

In the days immediately after the holiday, a frantic search for Nolan ensued, with authorities, friends and family deploying resources to find the missing teen.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Chicago police said that the teen was inside the residence when he was shot in the left leg.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of teen

Noun

But as is the case for a lot of young talent in the soccer industry, the teenager quickly became a commodity.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Kloie attended Centennial High School in Bakersfield, and the school’s softball team paid tribute to the late teenager on social media.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of teenager

Noun

The 34-year-old gave birth there to all three kids, Levi, 5, Elijah, 3, and Rae, who turns 1 in September.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Just as many people can’t afford to have someone else clean their homes, landscape their yards or nanny their kids, those struggling to make ends meet may need to lean on AI assistance.

— Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of kid

Noun

At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.

— Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of teenybopper

Noun

As a preteen, I became absorbed in the life of Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok and others through stories written for my age group.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
The outlet reported that the character, who is a preteen in season 4 of Ted Lasso, has grown into a skilled soccer player — something Feely alluded to in an October 2025 interview with the Birmingham Parent.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of preteen

Noun

He was only getting started, but people could already see the natural ability that the youngster believed would one day take him to the top.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The car turns onto a dark road that, to the youngsters’ growing unease, appears to stretch on forever through an infinite forest.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of youngster

Noun

That includes a limited-time collection of teen and tween clothes, school supplies and accessories in pastel colors and floral prints from the women's lifestyle brand LoveShack Fancy.

— CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
That includes a limited-time collection of teen and tween clothes, school supplies and accessories in pastel colors and floral prints from the women’s lifestyle brand LoveShack Fancy.

— Anne D'Innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of tween

Noun

The full bald eagle nesting season lasts over six months, depending on when the last season’s fledged chicks leave the area.

— Annie Colbert, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
The chick hatched July 17, a few weeks after the birth of another penguin, the aquarium said, to parents Nipper and Pebbles, also the pair’s second child.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

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