"tenth" meaning in English

See tenth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /tɛnθ/ [US, UK] Audio: en-us-tenth.ogg [US] Forms: tenth [positive], [comparative], [superlative]
Etymology: ten + -th Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|ten|th}} ten + -th Head templates: {{adj}} [POS TABLE]
  1. The tenth thing is the one that is number ten (10) in order.
    Sense id: simple-tenth-en-adj-M8-OoOFv Categories (other): Ordinal numbers
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -th

Noun

IPA: /tɛnθ/ [US, UK] Audio: en-us-tenth.ogg [US] Forms: tenth [singular], tenths [plural]
Etymology: ten + -th Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|ten|th}} ten + -th Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A tenth is one of ten equal parts of a whole.
    Sense id: simple-tenth-en-noun-SKm4OcdN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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