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ten
1[ ten ]
noun
- a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- a symbol for this number, as 10 or X.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- a playing card with ten pips.
- Informal. a ten-dollar bill:
She had two tens and a five in her purse.
- Also called ten's place. Mathematics.
- (in a mixed number) the position of the second digit to the left of the decimal point.
- (in a whole number) the position of the second digit from the right.
adjective
- amounting to ten in number.
ten.
2abbreviation for
- tenor.
- Music. tenuto.
ten
1/ ɛ /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one. It is the base of the decimal number system and the base of the common logarithm See also number
- a numeral, 10, X, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of ten units, such as a playing card with ten symbols on it
- Also calledten o'clock ten hours after noon or midnight
determiner
- amounting to ten
ten tigers
- ( as pronoun )
to sell only ten
ten-
2combining_form
- a variant of teno-
Word History and Origins
Origin of ten1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ten1
Idioms and Phrases
- take ten, Informal. to rest from what one is doing, especially for ten minutes.
More idioms and phrases containing ten
see count to ten ; not touch with a ten-foot pole .Example Sentences
Speaking of COVID, that pandemic may have waned lately, but tens of thousands of infections still occur weekly, as well as several hundred deaths.
Across Southern California, tens of thousands of marine animals, including marine birds, have been affected.
They were married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, when tens of thousands of people lining the streets for their wedding procession to Buckingham Palace.
For years, the U.S. also denied responsibility for Agent Orange cleanup, despite the recognition of dioxin-associated illnesses among U.S. veterans and testing that revealed continuing dioxin exposure among potentially tens of thousands of Vietnamese.
Luckily for Sarah she had a solar charger that kept her phone charged through ten hours of blackout, and helped her elderly neighbour do the same.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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