Synonyms for decennium


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-sen-ee-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɛn i əm


Définition of decennium

  • As in ten : noun ten of something
Example sentences :
  • We have much need to distinguish century from century and decennium from decennium.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 » by G. T. Stokes
  • The decennium extending from 1550 to 1560 was the good period of Ivan IV.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 1 » by Various
  • These are the only monuments of early typography acknowledged to come within the present decennium.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 » by Henry Hallam
  • One or two trifling works on Greek grammar were published by Croke during this decennium.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 » by Henry Hallam
  • The second decennium still found him employed chiefly in research, vertebrate and extinct forms absorbing most of his attention.
  • Extract from : « Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work » by P. Chalmers Mitchell
  • He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.
  • Extract from : « Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work » by P. Chalmers Mitchell
  • In the following year and throughout the rest of the decennium the district had its usual low average of enteric-fever deaths.
  • Extract from : « A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) » by Charles Creighton
  • The high rate of a decennium is not unfrequently brought up by one great explosion.
  • Extract from : « A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) » by Charles Creighton
  • But with intellectual matters it is totally different; they change from century to century, nay, from decennium to decennium.
  • Extract from : « Popular scientific lectures » by Ernst Mach

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