decade

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of. ..

Noun

 * 1) A group, set, or series of ten, particularly:
 * 2) A period of ten years, particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
 * 3) A period of ten days,  particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
 * 4)  A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
 * 5)  A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a  and sometimes the.
 * 6) Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
 * 7)  A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
 * 8)  A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
 * 9)  The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
 * 1) A period of ten days,  particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
 * 2)  A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
 * 3)  A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a  and sometimes the.
 * 4) Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
 * 5)  A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
 * 6)  A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
 * 7)  The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
 * 1)  A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
 * 2)  The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

Usage notes
Although a may refer to any group of ten years, it often particularly refers to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. Some style guides may prefer that decade refers exclusively to such calendar periods while, , etc. refers to ten-year periods in other contexts. Similarly, a etc. may be any five-year period, whereas  and  are used for the two halves of a calendrical decade.

It should be noted that the method of computing a decade is distinguished from the proper computation of and, which run from 1 to 0. The 1st century began with the year 1 and ended with the year 100, but "the Nineties" are the years whose name includes the word, from '90 to '99, all the years of a century with a 9 as their tens place digit.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: десятка, декада
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: десетка
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sinampu
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, bộ mười, nhóm mười
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: צענדליק


 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: দশক
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܣܲܪܬܵܐ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: onillik
 * Basque: hamarkada
 * Belarusian: дзесяціго́ддзе
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: десетилетие
 * Burmese: ဆယ်စုနှစ်
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: napuloan, dekada
 * Cherokee: ᏍᎪᎯᏈ ᏧᏕᏘᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , decennium
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jardeko
 * Estonian: aastakümned
 * Faroese: áratíggju, tíggjuáraskeið
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: década, decenio
 * Georgian: ათი წელი, ათწლეული
 * German:,  ,
 * Alemannic German: Jaarzänt
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: ukiut qulikkuutaat
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: áratugur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: онжылдык
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: gadu desmits, desmitgade
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: tienderjoar
 * Luxembourgish: Joerzéngt
 * Macedonian: деценија, дека́да
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Northern Sami: logijahki, jahkelogeš
 * Norwegian:, årti, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਦਹਾਕਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: decenni
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: deichead
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: десетлеће, дeценија
 * Roman: desetleće ,
 * Slovak: desaťročie, dekáda
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: dekada
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:, దశాబ్ది
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: onyıl
 * Ukrainian:, десятирі́ччя
 * Vietnamese: thập kỷ, thập niên, mười năm
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: יאָרצענדליק


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Etymology
Borrowed from, cognate with 🇨🇬 etc. In the sense “period of ten days” influenced by ; this meaning is seldom found outside poor translations from English.

Noun

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

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * a, a period of ten days

Related terms

 * (ten years)
 * (ten years)

Noun

 * 1) a series of 10 books