English noun: decade |
1. | decade (time) a period of 10 years |
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| Synonyms | decennary, decennium |
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| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | 1530s, 1750s, 1760s, 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, eighties, eighties, fifties, forties, nineties, nineties, seventies, sixties, thirties, twenties |
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| Part holonym | twelvemonth, year, yr |
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| Part meronym | century |
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2. | decade (quantity) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system |
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| Synonyms | 10, ten, tenner, X |
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| Broader (hypernym) | large integer |
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