tens
Because it is a word with a single syllable, tens is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftens
- A set or group with ten elements.
Example: "We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors."
- A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner.
Example: "Can you give me two tens for this twenty?"
- A perfect specimen, a physically attractive person.
- A high level of intensity.
- The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
- A pair of tens.
- The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.
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