ten

CEFRA1

/tɛn/

number · numeral · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number after nine and before eleven.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    A set or group with ten elements.

Examples

  • It would be so cool if I could speak ten languages!

  • Ten years is a long time to wait.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /ten/

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

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

numeral

Extra meaning

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

noun

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

  • There are only ten of these rare animals left.

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

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

Synonyms

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Origin

number

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.