Meanings
tens1
- pluralplural of ten
- pluralplural onlyAn inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100.
tens of thousands of voters
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Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
Several tens of hours out on its first journey, while it was testing its track scanner by focusing back along the route it had taken, the ship registered a single massive annihilation explosion deep behind it, where the factory craft had been.
1987, Iain M. Banks, “Prologue”, in Consider Phlebas"We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."
2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 31Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad.
2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2025Synonyms: dozens
- pluralplural onlyslangcard gamesA pair of tens.
TENS2
- abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
- abbreviationuncountablemedicineAbbreviation of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100.
Translations
Finnish kymppipari, kymmenluku
- kymppiparipair of tens
- kymmenlukusecond decade of a century
French dizaine
- dizaineplural of 'approximately ten'
Malay puluhan
- puluhanplural of 'ten'
Polish dziesiątki, dziesiątki
- dziesiątkipair of tens
- dziesiątkisecond decade of a century
- dziesiątkiplural of 'ten'
- dziesiątkiplural of 'approximately ten'
Russian деся́тки
- деся́тки (desjátki)plural of 'ten'
Swedish tiotal
- tiotalsecond decade of a century
Ukrainian деся́ті, деся́тки
- деся́ті (desjáti)second decade of a century
- деся́тки (desjátky)plural of 'ten'
Welsh undegau
- undegausecond decade of a century
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
tens. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tens
“tens.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tens. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tens,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tens.
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