ten
∞
1.0
- numeral
- /tɛn/
:
diez
- Ten months inside is enough for me.
- ten years
- ten years ago
- ten minutes
And I started thinking, what else took ten years?
- And I started thinking, what else took ten years?
- This is when I was nine years old, about to become ten years old.
- And like when Trump got shot, I was sitting in my living room and my little Thatcher, who was ten, said Trump got shot.
- And they don't want to be subjected to that old pattern of agrarian society when you had ten children or eight children.
- And it's so funny now, sitting ten years after The Office has ended and looking back on it.
- I've got a twin sister, Julia and we all grew up in on an estate in Woolwich Common, Woolwich Common Estate, ten of us.
- I want to do more videos like this where it's like a top ten of, you know, brows, eyes, do's, don'ts, Best's, worst's all of that.
- The world ended and the three of us, along with ten other people like us from America, maybe we'll keep it on the same country survived.
Examples
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I'll be there in ten minutes.
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You only had it ten minutes.
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This is when I was nine years old, about to become ten years old.
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This is when I was nine years old, about to become ten years old.
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And it's so funny now, sitting ten years after The Office has ended and looking back on it.
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I still got ten minutes coming.
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But if there is, it could destroy ten city blocks and kill thousands of people.
Fiction book (1990) -
Speaker, the same figures show that real wages are lower today than they were ten years ago.
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I've been waiting ten months for this.
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I need ten apples for the recipe.
Synonyms
A Roman symbol for ten used to show the number ten in names or lists
Idioms
- Informal
To work as hard as you can, often more than expected
Compounds
- UK
1
4.6
The British Prime Minister, their home at 10 Downing Street, or the main attacking player in football
- Archaic
1
9.9
Seventy years that people often use to mean a typical human lifespan
- Australian
Tropical fern with thick divided leaves that grow in warm southern places
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Etymology
Ten is one of the oldest number words and belongs to a family of words that mean 'ten' in many languages, like Latin decem, German zehn, Spanish diez, and Hindi das. So ten is simply the name we use for the number ten, one more than nine.