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number 10

number 10 is the alternative form of ten.

Meaning of ten

Noun

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

  1. A set or group with ten elements.
    • We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
  2. (in plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
    • Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
  3. (countable) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
    • Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
    Synonyms:
    tenner
  5. (US, countable, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
    • I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine...2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio
    Synonyms:
    dime piece
  6. (US, countable, slang) A high level of intensity.
    • "Intensities in 10 Cities"1981 March 2, Intensities in 10 Cities, performed by Ted Nugent

See all 8 meanings of ten

Proper noun capitalized: Number 10

Number 10

  1. (UK) Synonym of 10 Downing Street.
    • There are honourable people in the government and principled advisers working in Number 10, even if their unheralded service is obscured by the crass antics of spin doctors and the demagoguery of some ministers.2009 April 23, Bagehot, “Who's Nasty Now?”, in The Economist, page 61

Synonyms of number 10

Forms of number 10

Noun
pluralnumber 10s
Proper noun
alternative formNo 10
alternative formNo. 10
alternative formNumber Ten

Questions about number 10

What does number 10 mean?
Number 10 means synonym of 10 Downing Street.
What is number 10 the alternative form of?
Number 10 is the alternative form of ten.
What part of speech is number 10?
Number 10 is a proper noun.

Words near number 10 in the dictionary

  1. numbdas
  2. numbed
  3. numbed out
  4. numbedness
  5. number
  6. number 10
  7. number 10s
  8. Number 11
  9. number 2
  10. number 2 pencil
  11. number 2 pencils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: number 10 (page history and authors); Number 10 (page history and authors); ten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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