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Ten

//tɛn// name, noun, num, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than nine wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Tennessee. abbreviation, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A set or group with ten elements. countable, uncountable

    "We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors."

  2. 2
    Initialism of toxic epidermal necrolysis. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face wordnet
  4. 4
    An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours."

  5. 5
    the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system wordnet
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  1. 6
    A card in a given suit with a value of ten. countable
  2. 7
    A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. countable

    "Can you give me two tens for this twenty?"

  3. 8
    A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person. US, countable, slang

    "I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us."

  4. 9
    A high level of intensity. US, countable, slang

    ""Intensities in 10 Cities""

  5. 10
    The act of rowing ten strokes flat out. countable

    "At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power."

Numeral
  1. 1
    The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

    "There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *déḱm̥ From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

Etymology 2

PIE word *déḱm̥ From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

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