tenth
UK/tɛnθ/
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tenth adjective: the ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
Adjective
tenth (not comparable)
- The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
- My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca...
- These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.1859, Charles Dickens, “The Substance of the Shadow”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 214
- Synonyms:
- X
- Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
- The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11
Noun
tenth (plural tenths)
- The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
- One of ten equal parts of a whole.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
- Synonyms:
- decima
- A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
- A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
Verb
tenth (third-person singular simple present tenths, present participle tenthing, simple past and past participle tenthed)
- To divide by ten, into tenths.
- A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.1832, The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale
tenth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tenth in Hindi
- ordinal form of ten — see also 10th
- दसवाँ dasvā̃
- something in the tenth position
- दसवाँ dasvā̃
- a tenth; one of ten equal parts of a whole
- दसवाँ dasvā̃
tenth in Tamil
- ordinal form of ten — see also 10th
- பத்தாம் pattām, பத்தாவது pattāvatu
tenth in Marathi
- tenth
- दहावे dahāve
tenth in Urdu
- ordinal form of ten — see also 10th
- دسواں dasvā̃
More languagesFewer languages
- tenth in Bengali
- দশম dośom
- tenth in Telugu
- పదవ padava, పదో padō
- tenth in Malayalam
- പത്താം pattāṁ, പത്താമത്തെ pattāmatte
- tenth in Kannada
- ದಶಮ daśama
- tenth in Punjabi
- ਦਸਵਾਂ, ਦਸਵੰਧ
- tenth in Gujarati
- દસમું dasmũ
- tenth in Odia
- ଦଶମାଂଶ
- tenth in Sanskrit
- दशमः daśamaḥ
- tenth in Sinhala
- දසවෙනි dasaweni
- tenth in Tagalog
- ikasampu, kapu, sangkapu
- tenth in Arabic
- عَاشِر ʕāšir, عُشْر ʕušr
- tenth in Malay
- kesepuluh
- tenth in Indonesian
- kesepuluh
- tenth in Persian
- دهم dahom
- tenth in Thai
- ที่สิบ tîi-sìp
- tenth in Vietnamese
- thứ mười
- tenth in Myanmar
- ဒသမ da.sa.ma.
Examples of tenth in a sentence
- Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.
- They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
- Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.
Synonyms of tenth
Forms of tenth
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tenths |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tenths |
| present participle | tenthing |
| past participle | tenthed |
| past | tenthed |
Origin of tenth
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
Words formed from tenth
Phrases with tenth
Words that rhyme with tenth
Questions about tenth
- What does tenth mean?
- Tenth means the ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
- What is tenth in Hindi?
- Tenth in Hindi is दसवाँ (dasvā̃). See Tenth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tenth?
- Tenth can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tenth?
- Tenth is pronounced /tɛnθ/ (UK).
Words near tenth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tenth (page history and authors); दहावे (Marathi) (page history and authors); ದಶಮ (Kannada) (page history and authors); tenth (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); દસમું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); tenth (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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