We have experienced many changes over the last decade.
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Decade
//ˈdɛkeɪd//
Synonyms for "decade" (74 found)
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18 entries'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290sHungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixtiesaughtsdecadalnoughtiesoughts · onetiesteens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · ninetiestens
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16 entriesderived from
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Translations
164 translations across 81 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- dhjetëvjetësh noun (period of ten years)
Arabic
1 entries- عَقْد noun (period of ten years)
Aragonese
1 entries- dezenio noun (period of ten years)
Armenian
2 entries- տասնամյակ noun (period of ten years)
- տասնյակ noun (series of ten things)
Assamese
1 entries- দশক noun (period of ten years)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܥܣܲܪܬܵܐ noun (period of ten years)
Asturian
2 entries- deceniu noun (period of ten years)
- década noun (period of ten years)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- onillik noun (period of ten years)
Basque
1 entries- hamarkada noun (period of ten years)
Belarusian
1 entries- дзесяціго́ддзе noun (period of ten years)
Bengali
1 entries- দশক noun (period of ten years)
Breton
2 entries- degad noun (series of ten things)
- dekved noun (period of ten years)
Bulgarian
3 entries- декада noun (series of ten things)
- десетилетие noun (period of ten years)
- десятка noun (series of ten things)
Burmese
1 entries- ဆယ်စုနှစ် noun (period of ten years)
Catalan
4 entries- decenni noun (period of ten years)
- dena noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- dècada noun (series of ten things)
- dècada noun (period of ten years)
Cebuano
2 entries- dekada noun (period of ten years)
- napuloan noun (period of ten years)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دەیە noun (period of ten years)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏍᎪᎯᏈ ᏧᏕᏘᏗ noun (period of ten years)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 十年 noun (period of ten years)
Czech
2 entries- desetiletí noun (period of ten years)
- desítka noun (series of ten things)
Danish
3 entries- decennium noun (period of ten years)
- dekade noun (period of ten years)
- årti noun (period of ten years)
Dutch
3 entries- decennium noun (period of ten years)
- tiental noun (series of ten things)
- tientje noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- tienderjoar noun (period of ten years)
Esperanto
1 entries- jardeko noun (period of ten years)
Estonian
2 entries- aastakümme noun (period of ten years)
- kümnend noun (period of ten years)
Faroese
2 entries- tíggjuáraskeið noun (period of ten years)
- áratíggju noun (period of ten years)
Finnish
4 entries- dekadi noun (series of ten things)
- dekadi noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- dekadi noun (electronics: set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected to provide even increments between one and ten)
- kertaluokka noun (physics, engineering: interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1)
French
3 entries- dizaine noun (series of ten things)
- décade noun (series of ten things)
- décennie noun (period of ten years)
Galician
3 entries- decena noun (series of ten things)
- decenio noun (period of ten years)
- década noun (period of ten years)
Georgian
2 entries- ათი წელი noun (period of ten years)
- ათწლეული noun (period of ten years)
German
4 entries- Dekade noun (series of ten things)
- Dekade noun (period of ten years)
- Dekade noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- Dezennium noun (period of ten years)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌿𐍃 noun (series of ten things)
Greek
2 entries- δεκάδα noun (series of ten things)
- δεκαετία noun (period of ten years)
Greenlandic
1 entries- ukiut qulikkuutaat noun (period of ten years)
Hawaiian
1 entries- anahulu noun (period of ten days)
Hebrew
1 entries- עשור noun (period of ten years)
Hindi
1 entries- दशक noun (period of ten years)
Hungarian
1 entries- évtized noun (period of ten years)
Icelandic
1 entries- áratugur noun (period of ten years)
Ido
1 entries- yardeko noun (period of ten years)
Indonesian
3 entries- dasarian noun (period of ten days)
- dasawarsa noun (period of ten years)
- dekade noun (period of ten years)
Irish
1 entries- deichniúr noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
Italian
4 entries- decade noun (period of ten days)
- decade noun (electronics: set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected to provide even increments between one and ten)
- decennio noun (period of ten years)
- decina noun (series of ten things)
Japanese
1 entries- 十年 noun (period of ten years)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- онжылдык noun (period of ten years)
Latin
2 entries- decas noun (period of ten years)
- decennium noun (period of ten years)
Latvian
2 entries- desmitgade noun (period of ten years)
- gadu desmits noun (period of ten years)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Joerzéngt noun (period of ten years)
Macedonian
3 entries- дека́да noun (period of ten years)
- десетка noun (series of ten things)
- деценија noun (period of ten years)
Malay
3 entries- dasawarsa noun (series of ten things)
- dasawarsa noun (period of ten years)
- dekad noun (period of ten years)
Malayalam
1 entries- ദശാബ്ദം noun (period of ten years)
North Frisian
1 entries- Jaartiint noun (period of ten years)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- dehik noun (series of ten things)
- dehik noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- dehsal noun (period of ten years)
Northern Sami
3 entries- jahkelogeš noun (period of ten years)
- logijahki noun (period of ten years)
- logis noun (series of ten things)
Norwegian
4 entries- decennium noun (period of ten years)
- dekade noun (period of ten years)
- desennium noun (period of ten years)
- tiår noun (period of ten years)
Polish
4 entries- dekada noun (period of ten years)
- dziesiątka noun (series of ten things)
- dziesiątka noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- dziesięciolecie noun (period of ten years)
Portuguese
3 entries- decênio noun (period of ten years)
- dezena noun (series of ten things)
- década noun (period of ten years)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਦਹਾਕਾ noun (period of ten years)
Romanian
2 entries- decadă noun (series of ten things)
- deceniu noun (period of ten years)
Romansch
1 entries- decenni noun (period of ten years)
Russian
4 entries- дека́да noun (period of ten days)
- деся́ток noun (series of ten things)
- десятиле́тие noun (period of ten years)
- десятиле́тка noun (period of ten years)
Sardinian
1 entries- dècada noun (period of ten years)
Saterland Frisian
1 entries- Jiertjaand noun (period of ten years)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- deichead noun (period of ten years)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dècēnija noun (period of ten years)
- dȅsetleće noun (period of ten years)
- де̏сетлеће noun (period of ten years)
- дѐце̄нија noun (period of ten years)
Slovak
2 entries- dekáda noun (period of ten years)
- desaťročie noun (period of ten years)
Slovene
1 entries- desetletje noun (period of ten years)
Spanish
4 entries- decenario noun (period of ten years)
- decenio noun (period of ten years)
- década noun (series of ten things)
- década noun (period of ten years)
Swahili
1 entries- mwongo noun (period of ten years)
Swedish
4 entries- decennium noun (period of ten years)
- dekad noun (series of ten things)
- dekad noun (period of ten years)
- årtionde noun (period of ten years)
Tagalog
2 entries- dekada noun (period of ten years)
- sinampu noun (series of ten things)
Tamil
1 entries- தசாப்தம் noun (period of ten years)
Telugu
2 entries- దశాబ్దము noun (period of ten years)
- దశాబ్ది noun (period of ten years)
Thai
1 entries- ทศวรรษ noun (period of ten years)
Turkish
2 entries- onlu noun (series of ten things)
- onyıl noun (period of ten years)
Ukrainian
2 entries- десятилі́ття noun (period of ten years)
- десятирі́ччя noun (period of ten years)
Vietnamese
4 entries- bộ mười noun (series of ten things)
- chục noun (series of ten things)
- chục noun (series of prayers counted on a rosary)
- mười năm noun (period of ten years)
Volapük
1 entries- degyel noun (period of ten years)
Walloon
1 entries- dijhinne noun (series of ten things)
Welsh
1 entries- degawd noun (period of ten years)
Yiddish
2 entries- יאָרצענדליק noun (period of ten years)
- צענדליק noun (series of ten things)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
I lost my son about a decade ago.
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It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.
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She has been married to him for a decade now.
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