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Synonyms for decade

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dek-eyd; British also duh-keyd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛk eɪd; British also dəˈkeɪd

Définition of decade

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "ten parts" (of anything; originally in reference to the books of Livy), from Middle French décade (14c.), from Late Latin decadem (nominative decas), from Greek dekas (genitive dekados) "group of ten," from deka "ten" (see ten). Meaning "period of ten years" is 1590s in English.
  • As in ten : noun ten of something
Example sentences :
  • This period, beginning with 1840, has been styled "a memorable decade" in the history of Parliament.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • In a decade of our time, we had pillaged Kygpton of every particle of Sthalreh.
  • Extract from : « Raiders of the Universes » by Donald Wandrei
  • From decade to decade distinct advances of the frontier occurred.
  • Extract from : « The Frontier in American History » by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • The decade of the forties was also the period of Iowa's rapid increase.
  • Extract from : « The Frontier in American History » by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • North Dakota's development was greatest in the decade prior to 1890.
  • Extract from : « The Frontier in American History » by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • The progress of a century has been crowded into less than a decade of years.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 » by Various
  • The dilatory habits of a decade were not so readily unlearned.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • The memory of this decade of horrors has never died out in Rome.
  • Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani
  • Every decade brought new devices to control the desperate foe.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • This work has been and is to-day one of the most popular works of fiction of this decade.
  • Extract from : « The Rose of Old St. Louis » by Mary Dillon

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