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Definitions for TENTH
tɛnθtenth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percentnoun

    a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

  2. tenthadjective

    position ten in a countable series of things

  3. tenth, 10thadjective

    coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position

Wiktionary

  1. tenthnoun

    The person or thing in the tenth position.

  2. tenthnoun

    One of ten equal parts of a whole.

  3. tenthadjective

    The ordinal form of the number ten.

  4. Etymology: From. Old English had teoþa (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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tenthadjective

    First after the ninth; ordinal of ten.

    Etymology: teowa , Saxon.

    It may be thought the less strange if others cannot do as much at the tenth or twentieth trial, as we did after much practice. Boyle.

  2. Tenthnoun

    Etymology: from the adjective.

    Of all the horses,
    The treasure in the field atchiev’d, and city,
    We render you the tenth. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    By decimation and a tithed death,
    If thy revenges hunger for that food
    Which nature loaths, take thou the destin’d tenth. William Shakespeare.

    To purchase but the tenth of all their store,
    Would make the mighty Persian monarch poor. Dryden.

    Suppose half an ounce of silver now worth a bushel of wheat; but should there be next year a scarcity, five ounces of silver would purchase but one bushel: so that money would be then nine tenths less worth in respect of food. John Locke.

    With cheerful heart
    The tenth of thy increase bestow, and own
    Heav’n’s bounteous goodness, that will sure repay
    Thy grateful duty. Philips.

ChatGPT

  1. tenth

    The tenth refers to each of ten equal parts into which something is or may be divided. It is often expressed as the fraction 1/10 or the decimal 0.1. In broader contexts, it may also mean the position in a sequence or ordered list corresponding to that particular number.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tenthadjective

    next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others

  2. Tenthadjective

    constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided

  3. Tenthnoun

    the next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others

  4. Tenthnoun

    the quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided

  5. Tenthnoun

    the tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe

  6. Tenthnoun

    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

  7. Tenthnoun

    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

  8. Tenthnoun

    the tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tenth

    tenth, adj. the last of ten: next in order after the ninth.—n. one of ten equal parts.—adv. Tenth′ly, in the tenth place.

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    Rank popularity for the word 'TENTH' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2804

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TENTH in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TENTH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of TENTH in a Sentence

  1. Daniel Borochoff:

    The head of the American Red Cross receives a $ 600,000 salary, it's a multi-billion dollar charity. They control half of our blood supply, lead disaster provider. You've got this charity [ Southwest Key ], the budget is like a tenth of [ the Red Cross's ] size.

  2. Fethullah Gulen:

    If there is anything I told anyone about this verbally, if there is any phone conversation, if one-tenth of this accusation is correct ... I would bend my neck and would say, 'They are telling the truth. Let them take me away. Let them hang me,'.

  3. Francois Pervis:

    I thought I had a margin of six tenth of a second and in the end it's a margin of eight thousandth of a second, i was stuck in the final (250-metre) lap but thanks to the support of the crowd I did not feel the pain.

  4. Bernie Sanders:

    We're going to win, because first we're going to explain what democratic socialism is, what democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1% in this country own almost 9%, almost -- own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that it is wrong today, in a rigged economy, that 57% of all new income is going to the top one percent.

  5. Mitch McConnell:

    In light of the urgent humanitarian and security crisis on our border, the president is requesting $5.7 billion for physical barriers and border security, for some context, that is just about one tenth of one percent of federal spending. One tenth of one percent -- for physical barriers like the fences and barriers which already exist, which Democrats have previously voted for with enthusiasm.

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