What does TENTH mean?
Definitions for TENTH
tɛnθtenth
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word TENTH.
Princeton's WordNet
one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percentnoun
a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
tenthadjective
position ten in a countable series of things
tenth, 10thadjective
coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position
Wiktionary
tenthnoun
The person or thing in the tenth position.
tenthnoun
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
tenthadjective
The ordinal form of the number ten.
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
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.
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
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
Tenthadjective
next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others
Tenthadjective
constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided
Tenthnoun
the next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others
Tenthnoun
the quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided
Tenthnoun
the tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe
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
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
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
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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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'TENTH' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2804
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of TENTH in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of TENTH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of TENTH in a Sentence
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.
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,'.
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.
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.
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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Translations for TENTH
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- tiendeAfrikaans
- عاشرArabic
- onuncuAzerbaijani
- дзяся́тыBelarusian
- десе́тиBulgarian
- দশমBengali
- dekvetBreton
- dècim, desèCatalan, Valencian
- desátý, desetinaCzech
- degfed, degwm, degymauWelsh
- tiende, tier, tiendedelDanish
- zehnteGerman
- δέκατος, δέκατοGreek
- deka, dekonoEsperanto
- décimo, décimaSpanish
- kümnesEstonian
- hamargarrenBasque
- دهمPersian
- kymmenesosa, kymmenes, kymmenennesFinnish
- dix, dixièmeFrench
- tsiendeWestern Frisian
- deichiúIrish
- deicheamhScottish Gaelic
- jeihooManx
- עשיריHebrew
- दसवांHindi
- tizedikHungarian
- տասներորդArmenian
- decima, decimo, decimeInterlingua
- kesepuluhIndonesian
- dekesmaIdo
- tíundiIcelandic
- decimo, decimaItalian
- 十番目Japanese
- მეათეGeorgian
- оныншыKazakh
- ទីដប់Khmer
- 열째Korean
- онунчуKyrgyz
- decimum, decimusLatin
- ທີ່ສິບLao
- dešimtas, dešimta, dešimtadalisLithuanian
- desmitaisLatvian
- десеттиMacedonian
- kesepuluhMalay
- l-għaxarMaltese
- ဒသမBurmese
- tiendeDutch
- tiendeNorwegian
- neeznáá góneʼNavajo, Navaho
- dziesiątyPolish
- décimo, décimaPortuguese
- dieschavelRomansh
- cea a zecea, cel al zecelea, zecime, al [[zecelea]], a [[zecea]]Romanian
- деся́тый, 10-ыйRussian
- दशमःSanskrit
- десети, desetiSerbo-Croatian
- දසවෙනිSinhala, Sinhalese
- desiatySlovak
- desetiSlovene
- dhjetëAlbanian
- tionde, tiondelSwedish
- ya kumiSwahili
- பத்தாவதுTamil
- పదో, పదవTelugu
- даҳумTajik
- ที่สิบThai
- onunjyTurkmen
- ikasampuTagalog
- onuncuTurkish
- унынчыTatar
- деся́тийUkrainian
- دسواںUrdu
- oʻninchiUzbek
- thứ mườiVietnamese
- צענטYiddish
- 第十Chinese
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