decuman

/ˈdɛkjʊmən/

decuman adjective: large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.

Adjective

decuman (not comparable)

(obsolete) Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
- decuman billowsc. 1870, Frederic Farrar, The witness of history to Christ; 5 sermons, being the Hulsean lects. for 1870
(historical) Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.

decuman (plural decumans)

(obsolete) An extraordinarily large billow.
- Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...

பேரலை, மிகப்பெரிய, அலைகள் வகையில் தலைமையான

plural	decumans

From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).

What does decuman mean?: Decuman means large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
What is decuman in Tamil?: Decuman in Tamil is பேரலை, மிகப்பெரிய, அலைகள் வகையில் தலைமையான. See Decuman meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is decuman?: Decuman can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce decuman?: Decuman is pronounced /ˈdɛkjʊmən/.

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