ten
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
How often you will meet it
Rank 446 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 45,620 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system also: 10, X, tenner, decade
- one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face also: ten-spot
adjective
- being one more than nine also: 10, x
ten in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Ten minutes later shrill cry of pibroch heard again.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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I hurried to the treasurer's office and deposited my ten percent.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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The amphitheatre of Yale Field is packed with more than ten thousand.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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But for ten years he and this sweet-faced elderly woman in the doorway had been father and mother to the orphaned girl.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1