decade

Meaning of decade

noun
  1. a period of ten years.
    he taught at the university for nearly a decade
  2. each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary.
    a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary
  3. a range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value.
    power per decade of frequency

late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. decade (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.

Information about decade

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of decade is: decades.
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Hyphenation of decade

decade

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • decade is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

decade synonyms

Meaning decennary:

decennary, decennium

Meaning ten:

ten, X, tenner

Translation of decade

Words that rhyme with decade

Cade, cade, aquacade, estacade, facade, saccade, succade, dodecade, tesseradecade, Humicade, Remicade, barricade, unbarricade, Velcade, alcade, cavalcade, falcade, autocade, brocade, arcade, motorcade, ambuscade, cascade, frescade, muscade

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