teenager

[teen-ey-jer] /ˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/
noun
1.
a person in his or her teens.
Origin
1935-40; teenage + -er1
Examples from the web for teenager
  • The diary describes how a teenager is playing baseball in guilford.
British Dictionary definitions for teenager

teenager

/ˈtiːnˌeɪdʒə/
noun
1.
a person between the ages of 13 and 19 inclusive
Word Origin and History for teenager
n.

also teen ager, teen-ager; derived noun from teenage (q.v.), 1922. 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.