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ten

ten

1.0
The number after nine and before eleven
  • numeral
  • /tɛn/
translation icon : diez
  • Ten months inside is enough for me.
  • ten years
  • ten years ago
  • ten minutes

And I started thinking, what else took ten years?

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Examples

  • I'll be there in ten minutes.

  • You only had it ten minutes.

  • This is when I was nine years old, about to become ten years old.

  • This is when I was nine years old, about to become ten years old.

  • And it's so funny now, sitting ten years after The Office has ended and looking back on it.

  • I still got ten minutes coming.

  • 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.

  • I've been waiting ten months for this.

  • I need ten apples for the recipe.

Synonyms

x
vsten
5.8

A Roman symbol for ten used to show the number ten in names or lists

is the spelled-out word form rather than the Roman numeral symbol

Idioms

6 2.0

In almost all cases

ten to one
  • Informal
1 3.7

Very likely to happen

1 8.6

Very common and not worth much

Very poor with no money at all

To give more effort than seems possible

9.9

You say this when you are very sure something will happen

To work as hard as you can, often more than expected

Compounds

74 1.0

A number equal to ten thousand items

60 1.0

One part in every ten of a total amount

A set of ten moral rules that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai

16 3.0

A score of ten out of a possible total used in grading or contests

3 1.0

Paper money from the United States worth ten dollars

1 5.8

A hat with a wide brim and a tall soft crown that cowboys and ranchers wear

1 8.1

A playing card with ten spots on its face

1 4.6

The British Prime Minister, their home at 10 Downing Street, or the main attacking player in football

One part of ten thousand equal parts

ten-strike
  • Jargon
1 7.9

A bowler knocks down all ten pins with the first ball in a frame

One equal part of something divided into ten thousand parts

1 9.9

Seventy years that people often use to mean a typical human lifespan

A card you pay for in advance to use for ten coffees or bus rides

A number equal to one hundred plus ten

A coin worth ten cents, like a dime

4.0

A small cheap object with little real value

ten-day fern
  • Australian
9.9

Tropical fern with thick divided leaves that grow in warm southern places

ten-dollar word
  • Informal
9.3

A long fancy word people use when simple words are enough

8.4

A small freshwater fish with ten sharp spines on its back

How Many

one hundred
194 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
twenty-one
9 1.0
ten
1.0
five
1.0
one
1.0

Surface Forms

ten cardinal word
10 cardinal digit
10th ordinal digit
tenth ordinal word

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.