tens

See also: TENS

English

Noun

tens

1. plural of ten

1. (poker slang) A pair of tens.
2. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.

Translations

plural of 'ten'

• Russian: деся́тки (ru) (desjátki)
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• Uyghur: ئونلار (onlar)

pair of tens

• Finnish: kymppipari
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second decade of a century

• Finnish: kymmenluku
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• Swedish: tiotal (sv) n

See also

decades in English (edit)

Anagrams

• ENTs, NEST, Sten, ents, nest, nets, sent, sent., snet

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tēnsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.

Adjective

tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)

1. tense, taut

Etymology 2

Verb

tens

Further reading

• “tens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

tens oblique singular, m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)

1. Alternative form of tans

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtẽj̃s/, /ˈtẽj̃ʃ/
• IPA^(key): /tɐ̃j̃ʃ/

Verb

tens

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Swedish

Noun

tens

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of ten

Anagrams

• Sten, sent, sten