tenth
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- noun
- /tɛnθ/
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décimo
- The drive to the school where she taught tenth-grade English was uneventful after the delay.
Examples
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Now, it's three-three in the tenth.
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Much like her, in the top tenth of the class, but not the top one percent.
Fiction book (1992) -
No, he tested in the top one tenth of one percent.
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This will be the tenth.
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Then you start the job on the tenth.
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Capua now tenth and moving up in the field.
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Grade levels ranged from first to tenth, with sixth grade being the average grade level of the participants.
Academic text (2011) -
Yesterday was the tenth.
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Pearl received the results of her PSATs, and she's in the top tenth percentile of her class.
Fiction book (2000) -
She finished in tenth place in the marathon, achieving her personal best time.
Synonyms
The position after ninth and before eleventh in order
Compounds
- Specialized
A nerve that helps control heart, breathing, voice, and how the body breaks down food
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tenth comes from the simple number ten plus the ending -th that makes an order, so tenth means 'after nine' or 'number ten' in a row. That's why we use it for a date or a place, for example 'the tenth of the month' or 'tenth place'.