ten
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- noun
- /tɛn/
:
decena
- There are ten apples in the basket.
- tens of thousands
- tens of millions
- tens to hundreds
That's got to be a top ten NFL hi jinx moment.
- That's got to be a top ten NFL hi jinx moment.
- I've got like in the top ten like another one.
Examples
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Did you hit ten wins in a season?
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So then you need to buy ten of those packages.
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And so there were there were ten children and about.
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And I felt like in those ten months I had to grow.
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Well, in this example, you have ten months of supply.
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WOMAN: Michael, when we look at your results, we see a lot of top tens, but not a lot of victories.
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So I made it through to the final ten of the Nick's Face Awards.
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Both of my grandfathers spent ten years in jail for being Jewish.
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If you've been with me for that first ten years, thank you greatly.
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So it'd be ten of these castles in bricks.
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
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4.6
The British Prime Minister, their home at 10 Downing Street, or the main attacking player in football
- Archaic
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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
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ten as a group or set comes from the same old number word shared across languages (Latin decem, German zehn, Spanish diez), which means 'ten'. So calling a pack or set a ten just uses the word's basic meaning of the number ten.