ten
IPA: tˈɛn
noun
- A set or group with ten elements.
- (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
- (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
- (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
- (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
- (sports) Abbreviation of Tennessee. [A state of the United States.]
- (medicine) Initialism of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
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Examples of "ten" in Sentences
- The colossus weighed ten tons.
- Balsam was the fourth of ten children.
- He was the grandfather of ten grandchildren.
- The seat became one of the ten most marginal in the UK.
- She is one of the two female terrors, and the slyest of the ten.
- A flash scores ten times the number of one of the dice in the flash.
- Talisman were one of the top ten drawing acts in Sweden in the summer.
- He was the only one of ten children to survive an epidemic of diphtheria.
- In the first episode, the Lifeguard is chosen by picking one of ten cards.
- He has been hailed as one of the ten key philosophers of the Confucian School.
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