tens
noun B1- An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100. · Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.· tens of thousands of voters
- A pair of tens.
- The period from a year ending in 10 to a year ending in 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s); the teens, the oneties.
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She saw herself the object of attention to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.
“Those are really aces and twos which you see, but my shots have turned them into threes, fives, sevens, eights, nines, and tens.”
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