Definition of "ten" []

• The cardinal number equal to 9 + 1. (noun)
• The tenth in a set or sequence. (noun)
• Something having ten parts, units, or members. (noun)
• Games A playing card marked with ten spots. (noun)
• A ten-dollar bill. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To denote a number greater than ten, we must begin again, _ten_ and _one, ten_ and _two_, &c."
• "In the sentence, Ten men _walk_, the verb _walk_ denotes _ten_ actions, for there are ten actors."
• "Out of forty lines of Vergil, Scaife would do fifteen, John fifteen, and the Caterpillar ten; _ten_, because, as he pointed out, he had been nearly three years in the school."