"tens" meaning in English

See tens in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Rhymes: -ɛnz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} tens
  1. plural of ten Tags: form-of, plural Form of: ten
    Sense id: en-tens-en-noun--TLa0G~n

Noun

Rhymes: -ɛnz Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} tens pl (plural only)
  1. An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100. Tags: plural, plural-only Synonyms: dozens Translations (plural of 'approximately ten'): dizaine (French) Translations (plural of 'ten'): puluhan (Malay), деся́тки (desjátki) (Russian), деся́тки (desjátky) (Ukrainian), ئونلار (onlar) (Uyghur)
    Sense id: en-tens-en-noun-kNrN6jEr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 35 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 32 28 37 Disambiguation of "plural of 'approximately ten'": 69 13 18 Disambiguation of "plural of 'ten'": 69 13 18
  2. (poker slang) A pair of tens. Tags: plural, plural-only, slang Categories (topical): Poker Translations (pair of tens): kymppipari (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-tens-en-noun-8yf5JH6e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 35 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 32 28 37 Topics: card-games, poker Disambiguation of 'pair of tens': 0 100 0
  3. The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Decades Translations (second decade of a century): kymmenluku (Finnish), ათიანები (atianebi) (Georgian), ათიანი წლები (atiani c̣lebi) (Georgian), 10-იანი წლები (10-iani c̣lebi) (Georgian), 10-იანები (10-ianebi) (Georgian), tiotal [neuter] (Swedish), деся́ті (desjáti) (Ukrainian), undegau [masculine, plural] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-tens-en-noun-yKMw5CYb Disambiguation of Decades: 2 22 23 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 35 26 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 32 28 37 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 22 23 23 31 Disambiguation of 'second decade of a century': 41 6 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s, 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s, 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s, 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s, 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s, 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s, 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s, '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s, 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's, zeros, zeroes, aughts, noughties, oughts · oneties, tens, teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties, Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties, 10s, 10's

Download JSON data for tens meaning in English (7.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "tens",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "ten"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of ten"
      ],
      "id": "en-tens-en-noun--TLa0G~n",
      "links": [
        [
          "ten",
          "ten#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tens"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "tens pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "zeros"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "zeroes"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "aughts"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "noughties"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "oughts · oneties"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tens"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "10s"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "10's"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 35 26 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 32 28 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "tens of thousands of voters",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, w:Iain M. Banks, “Prologue”, in w:Consider Phlebas",
          "text": "Several tens of hours out on its first journey, while it was testing its track scanner by focusing back along the route it had taken, the ship registered a single massive annihilation explosion deep behind it, where the factory craft had been.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100."
      ],
      "id": "en-tens-en-noun-kNrN6jEr",
      "links": [
        [
          "10",
          "10"
        ],
        [
          "20",
          "20"
        ],
        [
          "100",
          "100"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dozens"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 18",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
          "word": "puluhan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 18",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "desjátki",
          "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
          "word": "деся́тки"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 18",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "desjátky",
          "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
          "word": "деся́тки"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 18",
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "onlar",
          "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
          "word": "ئونلار"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 18",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "plural of 'approximately ten'",
          "word": "dizaine"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poker",
          "orig": "en:Poker",
          "parents": [
            "Card games",
            "Gambling",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 35 26 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 32 28 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pair of tens."
      ],
      "id": "en-tens-en-noun-8yf5JH6e",
      "links": [
        [
          "poker",
          "poker"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "tens",
          "ten#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poker slang) A pair of tens."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "poker"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pair of tens",
          "word": "kymppipari"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 35 26 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 32 28 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 23 23 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 22 23 52",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Decades",
          "orig": "en:Decades",
          "parents": [
            "Calendar",
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties."
      ],
      "id": "en-tens-en-noun-yKMw5CYb",
      "links": [
        [
          "1910s",
          "1910s"
        ],
        [
          "2010s",
          "2010s"
        ],
        [
          "teens",
          "teens"
        ],
        [
          "oneties",
          "oneties"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "kymmenluku"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "atianebi",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "ათიანები"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "atiani c̣lebi",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "ათიანი წლები"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "10-iani c̣lebi",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "10-იანი წლები"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "10-ianebi",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "10-იანები"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "tiotal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "desjáti",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "word": "деся́ті"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "41 6 52",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "second decade of a century",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "undegau"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tens"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English noun forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English pluralia tantum",
    "English terms with quotations",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛnz",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛnz/1 syllable",
    "en:Decades"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "tens",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "ten"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of ten"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ten",
          "ten#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tens"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English noun forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English pluralia tantum",
    "English terms with quotations",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛnz",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛnz/1 syllable",
    "en:Decades"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "tens pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s"
    },
    {
      "word": "2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s"
    },
    {
      "word": "1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s"
    },
    {
      "word": "00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s"
    },
    {
      "word": "'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s"
    },
    {
      "word": "00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's"
    },
    {
      "word": "zeros"
    },
    {
      "word": "zeroes"
    },
    {
      "word": "aughts"
    },
    {
      "word": "noughties"
    },
    {
      "word": "oughts · oneties"
    },
    {
      "word": "tens"
    },
    {
      "word": "teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties"
    },
    {
      "word": "10s"
    },
    {
      "word": "10's"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "tens of thousands of voters",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, w:Iain M. Banks, “Prologue”, in w:Consider Phlebas",
          "text": "Several tens of hours out on its first journey, while it was testing its track scanner by focusing back along the route it had taken, the ship registered a single massive annihilation explosion deep behind it, where the factory craft had been.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "10",
          "10"
        ],
        [
          "20",
          "20"
        ],
        [
          "100",
          "100"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dozens"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Poker"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pair of tens."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poker",
          "poker"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "tens",
          "ten#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poker slang) A pair of tens."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "poker"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "1910s",
          "1910s"
        ],
        [
          "2010s",
          "2010s"
        ],
        [
          "teens",
          "teens"
        ],
        [
          "oneties",
          "oneties"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnz"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
      "word": "puluhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "desjátki",
      "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
      "word": "деся́тки"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "desjátky",
      "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
      "word": "деся́тки"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "onlar",
      "sense": "plural of 'ten'",
      "word": "ئونلار"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "plural of 'approximately ten'",
      "word": "dizaine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pair of tens",
      "word": "kymppipari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "kymmenluku"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "atianebi",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "ათიანები"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "atiani c̣lebi",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "ათიანი წლები"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "10-iani c̣lebi",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "10-იანი წლები"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "10-ianebi",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "10-იანები"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tiotal"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "desjáti",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "word": "деся́ті"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "second decade of a century",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "undegau"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tens"
}
{
  "called_from": "page/2196",
  "msg": "parse_linkage_recurse unhandled NodeKind.URL: <URL(['//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:en-decades?action=edit'], ['edit']){} >",
  "path": [
    "tens"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "tens",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.