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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