Pronunciations
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/ˈtwiːnˌeɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Noun
A young person who is not yet a teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one: generally ten to twelve years old.
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- Examples
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Your eight to twelve year old is in the gray area between early childhood and the teen years. He is a child in the middle—a “tweenager.”