DECADE meaning: Period of ten years duration

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General (27 matching dictionaries)

decade: Merriam-Webster.com
decade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
decade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
decade: Collins English Dictionary
decade: Vocabulary.com
Decade, decade: Wordnik
decade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
decade: Wiktionary
decade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
decade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
decade: Infoplease Dictionary
Decade, decade: Dictionary.com
decade: Online Etymology Dictionary
decade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Decade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
decade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
decade: Rhymezone
decade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
decade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
decade: Free Dictionary
decade: Mnemonic Dictionary
decade: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
decade: Dictionary/thesaurus
decade: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

decade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

DECADE: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Decade: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Decade: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

decade: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

decade: Electronics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A group, set, or series of ten
▸ noun:  A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
▸ noun:  A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
▸ noun:  (literary, archaic) A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
▸ noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
▸ noun:  Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
▸ noun:  (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
▸ noun:  (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
▸ noun:  (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

Similar:

decennium, decennary, ten, X, tenner, years, century, millennium, 1990s, months, more...

Opposite:

moment, instant, second, minute, flash

Types:

1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, more...

Phrases:

lost decade, decade counter, mauve decade, decade long, Decade box, more...

Adjectives:

last, past, next, first, second, previous, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, final

Colors:

teal, olive, mustard, burgundy, mauve, more...

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