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tens pl (plural only)
To express inexact number, dozens is much more common than tens, except when conveying order of magnitude, such as "tens of thousands ".
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18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
Decade only | 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 or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Borrowed from Latin tēnsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.
tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)
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From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.
tens (plural tenses or tens)
tens oblique singular, m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)
From Latin tenēs. Cognate with Galician tes and Spanish tienes. Also compare with vens.
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