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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Decade \Dec"ade\, noun [F. d['e]cade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr. ?, fr. de'ka ten. See {Ten}.] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also {decad}.]
During this notable decade of years. --Gladstone.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
decade
noun
1: a period of 10 years [syn: {decennary}, {decennium}]
2: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system [syn: {ten}, {10}, {X}, {tenner}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "decade": Big Dick, Decalogue, Ten Commandments, X, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decagon, decagram, decahedron, decaliter, decameter, decare, decastere, decastyle, decasyllable, decemvir, decemvirate, decennary, decennium, decigram, deciliter, decimeter, decurion, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, ten, tenner, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year
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