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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- A period of ten years; a decade.
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Century Dictionary (1 definition)
- A period of ten years.
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Wiktionary (1 definition)
- a period of ten years
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GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- A period of ten years.
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WordNet (1 definition)
- A period of 10 years.
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Every decennium is regularly worse than that which precedes it, until the mind is perfectly confounded by the _Pelion upon
How dreadful, if audibly declared, this sentence to a poor nerve-shattered child: Behold! thou art commanded, before thy first decennium is completed, to see father and mother no more, and to throw thyself into the wilderness of London.
He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.
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Latin, from decennis, lasting for ten years : decem, ten; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots + annus, year; see at- in Indo-European roots.
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