Decade

Noun

 * 1) A period of ten years.
 * 2) Any series of ten items.
 * 3) A series of ten Hail Marys in the rosary.
 * 4)  The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.

Synonyms for Decade

 * (ten years) decennium

Thesaurus
abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decagon, decagram, decahedron, decaliter, decameter, decare, decastere, decastyle, decasyllable, decemvir, decemvirate, decennary, decennium, decigram, deciliter, decimeter, decurion, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, ten, tenner, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year

Etymology
From, from décade:, from  decas:, from  δέκας:, from δέκα:

Translations

 * Arabic: عشر سنوات
 * Aragonese:
 * Basque: hamarkada
 * Bosnian: decenija
 * Breton: dekvloaziad -où
 * Bulgarian: десетилетие
 * Catalan: dècada
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 十年
 * Danish: årti, dekade
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: aastakümned
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ათი წელი, ათწლეული
 * German: Jahrzehnt, (archaic) Dekade
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: עשור
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 十年
 * Macedonian: деценија,
 * Malay:
 * Polish: dziesięciolecie (ten years); dekada  (also relating to a period of ten days, weeks, months)
 * Portuguese:, decênio
 * Romanian: deceniu, decenii
 * Russian:, десятилетка, декада
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: desetleće, decenija
 * Slovak: desaťročie, dekáda (also relating to a period of ten days)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, årtionde,
 * Telugu: దశాబ్దము (daSAbdamu), దశాబ్ది (daSAbdi)
 * Tosk:
 * Vietnamese: thập kỷ, thập niên, mười năm
 * Volapük: degyel
 * Welsh: degawd


 * Breton: degad -où
 * Bulgarian: десятка,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: десетка
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: decadă, decade
 * Russian: десяток
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: onlu
 * Vietnamese: chục, bộ mười, nhóm mười


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: dziesiątka
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese: chục


 * : dasawarsa, dekade


 * : década

Etymology
From décade, cognate with German Dekade etc.

Noun

 * 1) A decade, period of ten years
 * 2)  A décade, 'week' of ten days in the French republican calendar; hence any ten consecutive days
 * 3) A set of ten book volumes, as part of a larger opus

Synonyms

 * (ten years) decennium

Noun

 * 1) A decade, a period of ten days

Related terms

 * deca-
 * decennio (ten years)

Verb form
decade


 * 1) third-person singular indicative present of decadere

Anagrams

 * deceda