{
    "term": "teens",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the years of a person’s life when they are between 13 and 19 years old",
            "sensetop": "in your teens",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She began writing poetry in her teens.",
                    "contextForm": "in your teens"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to be in your **early/late teens**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't want to share a room with his brother once he reached his teens."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His parents divorced during his teens."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's had skin problems since her teens."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An eyewitness described a boy in his mid to late teens wearing a dark jacket."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "late"],
                "verb + teens": ["reach"],
                "preposition": [
                    "during your teens",
                    "in your teens",
                    "since your teens"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tiːnz/",
                "audio": "te/teens/teens__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tiːnz/",
                "audio": "te/teens/teens__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: plural of teen, independent usage of -teen."
}