teens
Because it is a word with a single syllable, teens is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofteens
- A teenager.
- The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
Example: "The number of people at the meeting was in the teens."
- The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
Example: "She is in her teens."
- The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
- (temperature, rates) The range between 10 and 19.
Example: "Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night."
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