ten

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The number 10, which comes after nine and before eleven.

   There are ten students in the classroom.

2. 2
   noun

   A banknote worth ten units of money.

   Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

PIE word *déḱm̥ From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

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