What does tenth mean?
Definitions for tenth
tɛnθtenth
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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
Daniel DaleWealth taxesWarren:
I have proposed a two-cent wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one percent in this country, that would give us enough money to start with our babies by providing universal child care for every baby age 0 to 5, universal pre-k for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old in this country.
Too often, we Republicans -- myself included -- have emphasized our message on the Tenth Amendment but not our message on the Fourteenth, for too long, we Republicans have been content to lose the black vote because we found that we could win elections without it. But when we gave up on trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln.
What the American people understand is that our great country was based on a simple principal, and that principle is fairness, let me be very clear, it is not fair when we have more income and wealth inequality today than almost any major country on Earth. And, when the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that's not fair.
Dow Chemical spokeswoman Rachelle Schikorra:
We are reviewing our further appellate options, including seeking rehearing by the Tenth Circuit and/or review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
We subsequently, right now, think that it's about a tenth of a percent a week, not a tenth of a percent every two weeks.
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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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