its commonality in everyday usage, teenager is a relatively modern introduction to the English language, which debuted in print around the 1910s, and did not become popular until around the late 1940s and early 1950s as a marketing neologism.

Etymology

Teenager is derived from the adjective teenage, which is named after the suffix -teen appearing in the numbers representing ages 13 to 19 and forming the name of said numerals.

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