decade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, dec- + -ade. Doublet of decad and dekad.
Inflected forms:
form: decades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten , particularly
pos: noun
examples: a decade of soldiers
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
examples: The 1960s was a turbulent decade.
I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!
The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
Thru May: 1920s — The Decade That Roared. New exhibition portraying historical events and everyday life during the Roaring Twenties.
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades.
Some of these employees have been with the company for decades, which made the company's claims that it offers good training, positive management and excellent job security and benefit packages all the more compelling.
We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists
President Donald Trump likes to boast about the brilliance of his late uncle John Trump, who spent decades as a professor of electrical engineering at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). And when speaking about all manner of subjects, the president likes to make up stories filled with dramatic but fictional details. […] First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
examples: The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
tags: archaic
literary
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
gloss: A group, set, or series of ten
pos: noun
gloss: A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
pos: noun
gloss: The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
pos: noun
examples: There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.
Related words: decadal
1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
Derived words: cosmological decade
decade box
decade counter
decadeful
decade long
decade-long
decadelong
decades-long
decadeslong
decadewise
decadist
dollar decade
light decade
lost decade
multidecade
quintade
semidecade
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: տասնյակ
roman: tasnyak
lang: Breton
word: degad
lang: Bulgarian
word: десятка
roman: desjatka
lang: Bulgarian
word: декада
roman: dekada
lang: Catalan
word: dècada
lang: Czech
word: desítka
lang: Dutch
word: tiental
lang: Finnish
word: dekadi
lang: Finnish
word: kymmenikkö
lang: French
word: dizaine
lang: French
word: décade
lang: Galician
word: decena
lang: German
word: Dekade
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌿𐍃
roman: tigus
lang: Greek
word: δεκάδα
roman: dekáda
lang: Italian
word: decina
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dehik
lang: Macedonian
word: десетка
roman: desetka
lang: Malay
word: dasawarsa
lang: Polish
word: dziesiątka
lang: Portuguese
word: dezena
lang: Romanian
word: decadă
lang: Russian
word: деся́ток
roman: desjátok
lang: Northern Sami
word: logis
lang: Spanish
word: década
lang: Swedish
word: dekad
lang: Tagalog
word: sinampu
lang: Turkish
word: onlu
lang: Vietnamese
word: chục
lang: Vietnamese
word: bộ mười
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhóm mười
lang: Walloon
word: dijhinne
lang: Yiddish
word: צענדליק
roman: tsendlik