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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A period of ten years.
  2. n. A group or series of ten.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See decad.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A series of ten Hail Marys in the rosary.
  2. n. rare The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a period of 10 years
  2. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Middle French decade, from Late Latin decas ("(set of) ten"), from Ancient Greek δέκας (dékas), from δέκα (déka, "ten") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, a group of ten, from Old French, from Late Latin decas, decad-, from Greek dekas, from deka, ten; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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