# tens

Pronunciation: say "TENZ" /tɛnz/

## Noun

1. Plural of ten. — plural of ten
   - Simple: Plural of ten. Use this form when you mean more than one ten.
   - _The cashier handed over a thick stack of tens._
   - _Two tens added together make twenty._
2. An inexact quantity or number, usually understood as falling somewhere between 10 or 20 and 100.
   - Simple: A rough number of things, more than ten but far fewer than a hundred.
   - _Tens of researchers signed the open letter within a single afternoon._
   - _The festival drew tens of food stalls along the riverbank._
3. The decade spanning the years ending in 10 through 19, most often the 1910s or 2010s; also called the teens.
   - Simple: The ten years that end in 10 through 19, such as 1910 to 1919 or 2010 to 2019.
   - _The building boom of the tens reshaped the city's skyline._
   - _Music from the tens still dominates many of her playlists._
4. In poker and similar card games, a pair of tens held or shown by a player. *(slang)*
   - Simple: In card games like poker, two playing cards that are both tens.
   - _She was dealt pocket tens just before the flop._
   - _He raised hard, confident his tens would hold up._

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