ten
/tɛn/ noun C1- A set or group with ten elements. · We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
- An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 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 card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. · Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
- A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- A high level of intensity.
- The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
Plural tens
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His ten dollars, discreetly expended, would enable the two to dine very well indeed.
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
At the end of each ten weeks with the extra capital thus accumulated, he purchased one gentleman’s evening from the bargain counter of stingy old Father Time.
With ten dollars a man may, for a few hours, play the wealthy idler to perfection.
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