ten

Plural

tens

Noun

Noun

×

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.

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

2. 2.A set or group with ten elements.

   • We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
   • Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.
   • They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.

3. 3.A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

   • Your watch is ten minutes slow.
   • Ten years is a long time to wait.
   • I usually went to bed at ten in my school days.

4. 4.A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

   • Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

Num

Numeral

×

A word that represents a number or quantity.

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

   • A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
   • 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.

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Everyday conversation

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General reading & writing

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Synonyms

• decade

Word family

• tender
• tennis
• tension