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tenday

tenday noun: a period of ten days.

Noun

tenday (plural tendays)

  1. A period of ten days.
    • They're confident of having the main walls complete in just under ten tendays.1993, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, page 284

Forms of tenday

pluraltendays

Origin of tenday

From ten + day.

Questions about tenday

What does tenday mean?
Tenday means a period of ten days.
What part of speech is tenday?
Tenday is a noun.
What is the plural of tenday?
The plural of tenday is tendays.

Words near tenday in the dictionary

  1. tendamistat
  2. tendance
  3. tendances
  4. tendancies
  5. tendancy
  6. tenday
  7. tendays
  8. tende
  9. tended
  10. tended bar
  11. tended to one's knitting

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