Origin: French suffix -age
Teenage has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Brushwood for fences and hedges.
"The teenage was too dry to light, so we had to add more kindling to get the fire going."
"The teenage is an outdated term for a teenager that should not be used in modern writing."
Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
"The teenage students gathered in the cafeteria before their exams started."
In plain English: Teenage describes someone who is between the ages of thirteen and nineteen.
"The teenage boy was practicing his guitar in the backyard."
Usage: Use teenage as an adjective before nouns like teenagers, clothes, or problems to describe anything related to that specific age group. Do not use it after the noun; instead of saying "a teenager who is teenage," say "a teenage teenager."
The word teenage combines the suffix -teen with age and was first used in English in 1921 to describe years ending in teen. It originally referred specifically to adolescence but has since come to denote anyone between the ages of thirteen and nineteen.