tens
- 1Plural of ten. Use this form when you mean more than one ten.
She counted out three tens from the cash drawer.
He stacked the tens in a neat pile on the table.
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- 2A rough number of things, more than ten but far fewer than a hundred.
Like a crowd that fills a room but not a whole stadium.
Tens of volunteers turned up to clean the beach.
The storm left tens of homes without power overnight.
Similardozens
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- 3The ten years that end in 10 through 19, such as 1910 to 1919 or 2010 to 2019.
She was born early in the tens, around 2012.
Phones changed a huge amount during the tens.
Similarteens
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- 4In card games like poker, two playing cards that are both tens.
Like getting two matching cards in a game.
She turned over her tens and won the pot.
He bet big, holding tens the whole hand.
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tens is a form of ten
ten, noun: A rough number in the plural: 'tens of people' is several times ten, and 'tens of thousands' is several times ten thousand. Full entry
- Forms
- tentens plural
- Spelling
- ten → tens: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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