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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
Asked to defend specific abuses and the average American will likely say “no,” but tens of millions will nonetheless express confidence in the abuser.
The RSF has been battling the army for the past two years in a war that has killed tens of thousands and forced some 13 million people from their homes.
Experts say it's nearly impossible for India to hold back tens of billions of cubic metres of water from the western rivers during high-flow periods.
The dire wolf genome likely differs from that of the gray wolf in millions or tens of millions of ways.
After all, Venezuela's lost glaciers were far from the only ones releasing water that has been frozen for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
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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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