- 10
- There are only ten of these rare animals left.
- ten of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Twelve people were invited but only ten turned up.
- Do you have change for ten dollars?
- a ten-month contract
- Look at page ten.
- Ten and two is twelve.
- Two tens are twenty.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a ten?
- The bulbs are planted in sevens or tens (= groups of seven or ten).
- We moved to America when I was ten (= ten years old).
- Shall we meet at ten (= at ten o'clock), then?
Word OriginOld English tēn, tīen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tien and German zehn, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit daśa, Greek deka, and Latin decem.
Idioms
See ten in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee ten in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishten out of ten (for something)
- (British English, often ironic) used to say that somebody has guessed something correctly or done something very well
- Not brilliant, Robyn, but I'll give you ten out of ten for effort.
ten to one
- (informal) very probably
- Ten to one he'll be late.
two/ten a penny (British English)
(North American English a dime a dozen)
- very common and therefore not valuable
- Teachers of history are ten a penny.
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