Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A set or group with ten elements.

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

    деся́токdesjátok

  2. (countable, in the plural, uncountable)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.

    tens of thousands of voters

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

    Zehner

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

    Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

    Zehnerl

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

  6. (US, countable, slang)A high level of intensity.

  7. (countable)The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.

More definitions
  • the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
  • one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face

Examples

2555 sentences
  1. The meeting is ten days away.

    Зустріч буде за десять днів. — deniko

    deDas Treffen ist in zehn Tagen. — Zaghawa

  2. I sold it for ten dollars.

    Я продав його за десять доларів. — deniko

    ruЯ продал это за десять долларов. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe es für zehn Dollar verkauft. — MUIRIEL

  3. The boy can count to ten.

    Хлопчик може рахувати до десяти. — rmdas

    ruМальчик умеет считать до десяти. — Avelesy

    deDer Junge kann bis zehn zählen. — cost

  4. She left home ten minutes ago.

    Вона вийшла з будинку десять хвилин тому. — rmdas

    ruОна ушла из дома десять минут назад. — Lenin_1917

    deSie ist vor zehn Minuten aus dem Haus gegangen. — wolfgangth

  5. Let's have a ten-minute break.

    Зробімо перерву на десять хвилин. — rozmaita

    ruДавайте сделаем перерыв на десять минут. — Olya

    deLasst uns zehn Minuten Pause machen. — MUIRIEL

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
set or group with ten elements:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
playing card with a value of ten:
denomination of currency with a value of ten:

Forms

plural: tens
Singularten
Pluraltens

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system:10Xtennerdecade
  • one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face:ten-spot

Word family

68 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • ten minutes
  • ten years
  • ten years ago
  • in ten minutes
  • for ten years
  • was ten years
  • ten thousand yen
  • ten dollars
  • ten minutes ago
  • count to ten
  • ten years since
  • about ten minutes

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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