decade

1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly

   a decade of soldiers

2. A group, set, or series of ten

   A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.

   The 1960s was a turbulent decade.

   I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!

   Jahrzehnt, Dezennium, Dekade

   десятиле́тиеdesjatilétije, десятиле́ткаdesjatilétka

   десятилі́ттяdesjatylíttja, десятирі́ччяdesjatyríččja

   a period of 10 years

3. A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.

   дека́даdekáda

4. A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.

   Dekade

5. Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.

6. A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.

7. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

8. The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

   There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.

9. A group, set, or series of ten

   (archaic, literary)A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.

1. That happened just a decade ago.

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2. It took decades for that to happen.

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3. The breakfast menu hasn't changed for decades.

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4. We have experienced many changes over the last decade.

   deWir haben im Laufe des letzten Jahrzehnts viele Veränderungen erlebt.

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5. She has been married to him for a decade now.

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• decadalternative archaic