decade

Noun

Meaning

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

decennary decennium ten 10 century day age epoch era decennial x 10th picosecond attosecond tenner

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Antonyms

year period of a year single year period of one year one-year period

Hypernyms

period period of time time period large integer

Hyponyms

sixties twenties seventies nineties fifties thirties

Related terms

decadal

Phrases with the word

A decade Lost Decade decade of the 1990s the me decade one-fourth of a decade the 1940s decade

Anagrams

deaced

Examples

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. Robert Charles Wilson

Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years. Latin Proverb

One decade is long enough to change the looks of mountains and rivers. African Proverb

If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

decadarchy decadary decadation decade box decade counter decade long