ten

number

• equivalent to the product of five and two; one more than nine; 10:the last ten years the house comfortably sleeps ten a ten-foot shrub (Roman numeral: x, X)
• a group or unit of ten people or things:count in tens
• ten years old:the boy was no more than ten
• ten o’clock:at about ten at night, I got a call
• a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by ten.
• a ten-dollar bill:he took the money in tens
• a playing card with ten pips.
• (a ten) used to indicate that someone has done something well; the highest mark on a scale of one to ten:I would have to give them a ten for all the work they did