{
  "id": "teen.age",
  "term": "teen",
  "sense": "age",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "teen.age",
  "domain": "age",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who is in the period between childhood and adulthood",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "children.human",
      "adult.person",
      "development.growth",
      "previous.temporal",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "child develops over time into an adult through a growth process that unfolds in time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "transitional stage",
      "temporal progression",
      "emergent maturity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Malala Yousafzai advocated for girls' education at age 16, during her transition from childhood to adulthood.",
      "domain": "social_movement"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, 13-year-old Gitanjali Rao was named Time's first Kid of the Year, recognized as a young innovator entering teen years.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "The age cohort 13–19 in U.S. Census 2020 included 14.7 million individuals classified as teenagers.",
      "domain": "demographics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "adult.person",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "teen",
    "teens"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "definition revised to accurately reflect temporal progression and removed reliance on omitted temporal concepts; components updated to include necessary foundational layers"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-teen.age"
}