Meaning

5 senses
  1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

    position ten in a countable series of things

  2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.

    десятая

    a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

  3. The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

  4. (UK, historical, in the plural)A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

  5. A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.

Examples

69 sentences
  1. School begins on April the tenth.

    ruЗанятия в школе начинаются десятого апреля. — marafon

    deDie Schule beginnt am zehnten April. — MUIRIEL

  2. He is in the tenth grade.

    ruОн в десятом классе. — shanghainese

    deEr ist in der zehnten Klasse. — al_ex_an_der

  3. We celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary yesterday.

    ruВчера мы отпраздновали десятую годовщину нашей свадьбы. — odexed

    deWir feierten gestern den zehnten Jahrestag unserer Hochzeit. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Tom checkmated Mary on the tenth move.

    deTom setzte Maria in zehn Zügen schachmatt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. She will return home next Sunday, that is, the tenth.

    deSie kommt nächsten Sonntag nach Hause, also am Zehnten. — Yorwba

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a tenth; one of ten equal parts of a whole:

Origin

From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe),

From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).

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Forms

plural: tenths
Singulartenth
Pluraltenths

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts:one-tenthtenth partten percent

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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