What does tenth mean?
Definitions for tenth
tɛnθtenth
Here are all the possible meanings 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.
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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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
I work with all people and I have worked with all people including those who identify as LGBT, i’m unable to promote all messages. And to take it a step further and to clarify, Colorado and the Tenth Circuit Court say they agree that I work with all people. So that’s certainly something that’s been clarified and agreed to.
This would have been our tenth year doing it and we were really looking forward to it.
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.
In the 1950’s [America was] the richest nation, the richest city on earth was Detroit. They voted for change and so now it is the poorest city in America. At the same time, the nation of South Korea, of all the nations on earth, was third from the bottom. Virtually the poorest nation on earth. It is now tenth from the top. If you understand the principle, the greater freedom, the greater the wealth, you can then put any nation [on this chart]. Now you can go to Tagusagopos, you can go to Buenos Aires, you can go to Cairo, you can go to Philadelphia and all you need to know is what percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is controlled by government, and the greater the government, the greater the poverty, and that’s all politics is about. Every day politicians say, “I can make a better decision for you than you can for yourself, and let me take your money away from you and make it on your behalf” and thus make the nation poorer.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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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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