Synonyms of the word decade


DECADEDECENNARY - DECENNIUM - PERIOD - TEN - TENNER

decade

  • n. A series or group of ten things.
  • n. An historical period of the ten years in which the beginning year ended in "0" and the ending year ended…
  • n. Any given period of ten years.
  • n. (French historical) In the French Revolutionary calendar, a group of ten days.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A series of ten Hail Marys in the rosary.
  • n. (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.
  • n. Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.

decennary

  • adj. Decennial: of or related to a ten-year period.
  • n. A decennium: a period of ten years.
  • adj. Alternative form of decenary: of or related to the number ten; containing ten items.
  • adj. (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: of or related to a tithing.
  • n. (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: a tithing.

decennium

  • n. A period of ten years.

period

  • adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
  • adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
  • interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  • n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  • n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
  • n. Female menstruation.
  • n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
  • n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
  • n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
  • n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
  • n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
  • n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
  • n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
  • n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
  • n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
  • n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
  • n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

ten

  • num. (cardinal) The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten)…
  • n. (uncountable) The number following nine.
  • n. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  • n. (countable) A denomination of currency with a value of ten units.
  • n. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
  • n. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.

tenner

  • n. (informal) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, it referred…

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