Definitions for tenth

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IPA: /tɛnθ/

Tenth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in tenth (ehntt).

Definitions for tenth

noun

1. one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
2. the member of a series preceding the eleventh and following the ninth.
3. Music. a tone distant from another tone by an interval of an octave and a third. the interval between such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones.
4. Also called tenth's place. (in decimal notation) the position of the first digit to the right of the decimal point.

adverb

1. in the tenth place; tenthly.

adjective

1. next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
2. being one of ten equal parts.

Origin of tenth

before 1150; Middle English tenthe, Old English. See ten, -th², tithe

Examples for tenth

How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.

They're in them nine tenths of the time to a man's one tenth.

You haven't one tenth of what the other girls you go with have.

In 2014 only a tenth as many tourists came as had come the year before.

Buffalo ranked tenth in the nation, while Detroit and Pittsburgh ranked twelth and thirteenth, respectively.

But today, five years later, there are less than a tenth that number serving in those two countries.

The competition had commenced, and I was the tenth on the list.

Even so, the tenth Earl of Brinstead had dined publicly with them.

This would outfit less than one tenth of police officers nationwide but gets the idea circulating.

Possession is nine points of the law, and Time may give the tenth.