Definition of decade in English:

decade

noun ˈdɛkeɪddɪˈkeɪdˈdɛkeɪd

1A period of ten years.
he taught at the university for nearly a decade
Example sentencesExamples
- The honour will also be conferred on John Shannon, who retired earlier this year after nearly four decades as chairman of York Civic Trust.
- The birth rate increased for the third consecutive year following nearly a decade of decline.
- This volume of published material represents work carried out over a period spanning nearly three decades.
- He spent the next three decades pursuing a wide range of activities, both professionally and as hobbies.
- Activists feared attacks would only harm a population already devastated by two decades of war and famine.
- The council decided on a plan of action at its first extraordinary meeting and emergency debate for nearly a decade last month.
- Young Adam was written almost a decade earlier.
- Amid the overturned cabinets, he saw decades ' worth of patient records scattered about.
- The best model for New York is London, which has contracted out all of its bus services to the private sector every three years for nearly two decades.
- Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider.
- The software industry is just a few decades old while construction is as old as civilization itself.
- It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade.
- Awarded the CBE in 1994, Rosenthal was one of Britain's most prolific screenwriters in a career spanning more than three decades.
- Just a few of the signs: Impatient investors now hold onto stocks for only one year, on average, down from nearly two years a decade ago.
- The early decades of the conflict were characterised by a certain dignity and honour.
- Life expectancy edged downward in the decades prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- Untangling this problem could take decades of research.
- His remarkable acting career spanned six decades and scores of movies.
- After more than a decade at the helm it looks as if his endeavours may at last pay off.
- The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service.
1. 1.1 A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0.
  the fourth decade of the nineteenth century
  Example sentencesExamples
  This will become obvious by the beginning of the next decade, as the results of the 2010 census begin to rearrange the electoral map.
  The nineties were also a decade of promising new beginnings as new seminaries and schools of theology opened.
  But this is really just to frame the fact that today's the day; the ending of the past decade and the beginning of the next.
  Even with the decline, the state's hospitals employed more people at the end of the 1990s than at the beginning of the decade.
  Religion faced its most daunting challenges in the first two decades of the last century.
  The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness.
  Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
  The major mobile phone companies spent billions of pounds at the beginning of the decade to secure licenses enabling them to offer 3G services in the UK.
  It was the early 1990s, the beginning of a decade of civil war and chaos.
  Due to falling world silver prices during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the silver rupee was depreciated.
  The 1970s represented the beginning of three remarkable decades of expansion in the TSI.
  The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade.
  Ironically, it was actually an album released at the beginning of the next decade, which perhaps best symbolises this period of change.
  The 1990s were the decade of the development of self management plans for asthma.
  Germany had become by far Italy's most important trade partner during the two last decades of the nineteenth century.
  During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter.
  Strike activity remained at relatively high levels during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
  By the end of the 1990s, 52 countries wound up poorer than at the beginning of the decade, according to the report.
  ‘The Sixties did not start, miraculously, with the beginning of the new decade,’ she says.
  There was, for instance, a flurry of concern during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, and another at the dawn of the twentieth.
  Synonyms
  age, time, period, era, epoch, century, year, stage
2Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary.
a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary
Example sentencesExamples
- Pilgrims returning from the monastery at Mount Melleray have been known to stop and say a decade of the rosary for the departed.
- For me this has ranged from two Hail Mary prayers right up to five decades of the rosary (which takes me about fifteen to twenty minutes).
- Prayers at the graveside were recited by Fr. Cooney, who also led the large congregation in a decade of the Rosary.
- Neighbours and friends who visited Pamela's home yesterday recited prayers and a decade of the rosary in a bid to quieten the restless spirit.
- Then maybe a small group would join hands in a circle in prayer and somebody would begin a decade of the rosary.
3A range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value.
power per decade of frequency

Usage

There are two possible pronunciations for decade: one puts the stress on the dec- while the other puts the stress on the -cade (sounds like decayed). The second pronunciation is disapproved of by some traditionalists but is now regarded as a standard, acceptable alternative

Derivatives

decadal

adjective

Arctic temperatures did indeed have a peak around 1940, but the decadal mean temperatures are now warmer than the mean over 1935-1944.
Example sentencesExamples
- Estimates advanced in late 1999 suggest a strong percentage increase over 1998 that will raise the decadal average to a magnitude closer to the 1920s. So the 1920s did better, or worse.
- Like the 3 mainstream satellite teams, the study appears to generate a decadal global warming trend of around 0.1°C, almost identical to the 3 mainstream satellite data sets.
- WETLAND COMMUNITIES ARE strongly affected by annual and decadal fluctuations in water level.
- The eleven chapters are chronological, presenting a decadal review covering the period from 1850 through the latter 1990s, although the historical context frequently spills over between the time frame of each chapter and topic.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka 'ten'. sense 1 dates from the early 17th century.

One book by the Roman historian Livy, who lived at the time of Christ, was in ten parts, and the name for each division was translated into English as decade. The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the sections of a similar literary work. It did not come to refer to a period of ten years until the early 17th century. The root of decade, Greek deka ‘ten’, is also that of decimate and of the first element of units such as the decilitre and decimetre (late 18th century).

Definition of decade in US English:

decade

nounˈdɛkeɪdˈdekād

1A period of ten years.
he taught at the university for nearly a decade
Example sentencesExamples
- This volume of published material represents work carried out over a period spanning nearly three decades.
- Amid the overturned cabinets, he saw decades ' worth of patient records scattered about.
- Activists feared attacks would only harm a population already devastated by two decades of war and famine.
- Awarded the CBE in 1994, Rosenthal was one of Britain's most prolific screenwriters in a career spanning more than three decades.
- The best model for New York is London, which has contracted out all of its bus services to the private sector every three years for nearly two decades.
- The early decades of the conflict were characterised by a certain dignity and honour.
- The software industry is just a few decades old while construction is as old as civilization itself.
- He spent the next three decades pursuing a wide range of activities, both professionally and as hobbies.
- The council decided on a plan of action at its first extraordinary meeting and emergency debate for nearly a decade last month.
- The honour will also be conferred on John Shannon, who retired earlier this year after nearly four decades as chairman of York Civic Trust.
- Just a few of the signs: Impatient investors now hold onto stocks for only one year, on average, down from nearly two years a decade ago.
- After more than a decade at the helm it looks as if his endeavours may at last pay off.
- Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider.
- Young Adam was written almost a decade earlier.
- The birth rate increased for the third consecutive year following nearly a decade of decline.
- It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade.
- Life expectancy edged downward in the decades prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- His remarkable acting career spanned six decades and scores of movies.
- The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service.
- Untangling this problem could take decades of research.
1. 1.1 A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0 (or, by another reckoning, 1)
  the fourth decade of the nineteenth century
  Example sentencesExamples
  The nineties were also a decade of promising new beginnings as new seminaries and schools of theology opened.
  Even with the decline, the state's hospitals employed more people at the end of the 1990s than at the beginning of the decade.
  The 1990s were the decade of the development of self management plans for asthma.
  Ironically, it was actually an album released at the beginning of the next decade, which perhaps best symbolises this period of change.
  Strike activity remained at relatively high levels during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
  The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade.
  The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness.
  ‘The Sixties did not start, miraculously, with the beginning of the new decade,’ she says.
  Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
  During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter.
  This will become obvious by the beginning of the next decade, as the results of the 2010 census begin to rearrange the electoral map.
  But this is really just to frame the fact that today's the day; the ending of the past decade and the beginning of the next.
  It was the early 1990s, the beginning of a decade of civil war and chaos.
  Religion faced its most daunting challenges in the first two decades of the last century.
  Due to falling world silver prices during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the silver rupee was depreciated.
  By the end of the 1990s, 52 countries wound up poorer than at the beginning of the decade, according to the report.
  The major mobile phone companies spent billions of pounds at the beginning of the decade to secure licenses enabling them to offer 3G services in the UK.
  The 1970s represented the beginning of three remarkable decades of expansion in the TSI.
  There was, for instance, a flurry of concern during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, and another at the dawn of the twentieth.
  Germany had become by far Italy's most important trade partner during the two last decades of the nineteenth century.
  Synonyms
  age, time, period, era, epoch, century, year, stage
2Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary.
Example sentencesExamples
- Neighbours and friends who visited Pamela's home yesterday recited prayers and a decade of the rosary in a bid to quieten the restless spirit.
- Prayers at the graveside were recited by Fr. Cooney, who also led the large congregation in a decade of the Rosary.
- Then maybe a small group would join hands in a circle in prayer and somebody would begin a decade of the rosary.
- Pilgrims returning from the monastery at Mount Melleray have been known to stop and say a decade of the rosary for the departed.
- For me this has ranged from two Hail Mary prayers right up to five decades of the rosary (which takes me about fifteen to twenty minutes).

Usage

Note that when decade means ‘a division of the rosary,’ the pronunciation is distinct: the stress is on dec-, but the second syllable sounds like id, not ade

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. decade (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.

单词	decade
释义	Definition of decade in English: decade noun ˈdɛkeɪddɪˈkeɪdˈdɛkeɪd 1A period of ten years. he taught at the university for nearly a decade Example sentencesExamples The honour will also be conferred on John Shannon, who retired earlier this year after nearly four decades as chairman of York Civic Trust. The birth rate increased for the third consecutive year following nearly a decade of decline. This volume of published material represents work carried out over a period spanning nearly three decades. He spent the next three decades pursuing a wide range of activities, both professionally and as hobbies. Activists feared attacks would only harm a population already devastated by two decades of war and famine. The council decided on a plan of action at its first extraordinary meeting and emergency debate for nearly a decade last month. Young Adam was written almost a decade earlier. Amid the overturned cabinets, he saw decades ' worth of patient records scattered about. The best model for New York is London, which has contracted out all of its bus services to the private sector every three years for nearly two decades. Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider. The software industry is just a few decades old while construction is as old as civilization itself. It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade. Awarded the CBE in 1994, Rosenthal was one of Britain's most prolific screenwriters in a career spanning more than three decades. Just a few of the signs: Impatient investors now hold onto stocks for only one year, on average, down from nearly two years a decade ago. The early decades of the conflict were characterised by a certain dignity and honour. Life expectancy edged downward in the decades prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Untangling this problem could take decades of research. His remarkable acting career spanned six decades and scores of movies. After more than a decade at the helm it looks as if his endeavours may at last pay off. The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service. 1.1 A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0. the fourth decade of the nineteenth century Example sentencesExamples This will become obvious by the beginning of the next decade, as the results of the 2010 census begin to rearrange the electoral map. The nineties were also a decade of promising new beginnings as new seminaries and schools of theology opened. But this is really just to frame the fact that today's the day; the ending of the past decade and the beginning of the next. Even with the decline, the state's hospitals employed more people at the end of the 1990s than at the beginning of the decade. Religion faced its most daunting challenges in the first two decades of the last century. The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness. Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion. The major mobile phone companies spent billions of pounds at the beginning of the decade to secure licenses enabling them to offer 3G services in the UK. It was the early 1990s, the beginning of a decade of civil war and chaos. Due to falling world silver prices during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the silver rupee was depreciated. The 1970s represented the beginning of three remarkable decades of expansion in the TSI. The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade. Ironically, it was actually an album released at the beginning of the next decade, which perhaps best symbolises this period of change. The 1990s were the decade of the development of self management plans for asthma. Germany had become by far Italy's most important trade partner during the two last decades of the nineteenth century. During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter. Strike activity remained at relatively high levels during the first two decades of the twentieth century. By the end of the 1990s, 52 countries wound up poorer than at the beginning of the decade, according to the report. ‘The Sixties did not start, miraculously, with the beginning of the new decade,’ she says. There was, for instance, a flurry of concern during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, and another at the dawn of the twentieth. Synonyms age, time, period, era, epoch, century, year, stage 2Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary. a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary Example sentencesExamples Pilgrims returning from the monastery at Mount Melleray have been known to stop and say a decade of the rosary for the departed. For me this has ranged from two Hail Mary prayers right up to five decades of the rosary (which takes me about fifteen to twenty minutes). Prayers at the graveside were recited by Fr. Cooney, who also led the large congregation in a decade of the Rosary. Neighbours and friends who visited Pamela's home yesterday recited prayers and a decade of the rosary in a bid to quieten the restless spirit. Then maybe a small group would join hands in a circle in prayer and somebody would begin a decade of the rosary. 3A range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value. power per decade of frequency Usage There are two possible pronunciations for decade: one puts the stress on the dec- while the other puts the stress on the -cade (sounds like decayed). The second pronunciation is disapproved of by some traditionalists but is now regarded as a standard, acceptable alternative Derivatives decadal adjective Arctic temperatures did indeed have a peak around 1940, but the decadal mean temperatures are now warmer than the mean over 1935-1944. Example sentencesExamples Estimates advanced in late 1999 suggest a strong percentage increase over 1998 that will raise the decadal average to a magnitude closer to the 1920s. So the 1920s did better, or worse. Like the 3 mainstream satellite teams, the study appears to generate a decadal global warming trend of around 0.1°C, almost identical to the 3 mainstream satellite data sets. WETLAND COMMUNITIES ARE strongly affected by annual and decadal fluctuations in water level. The eleven chapters are chronological, presenting a decadal review covering the period from 1850 through the latter 1990s, although the historical context frequently spills over between the time frame of each chapter and topic. Origin Late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka 'ten'. sense 1 dates from the early 17th century. One book by the Roman historian Livy, who lived at the time of Christ, was in ten parts, and the name for each division was translated into English as decade. The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the sections of a similar literary work. It did not come to refer to a period of ten years until the early 17th century. The root of decade, Greek deka ‘ten’, is also that of decimate and of the first element of units such as the decilitre and decimetre (late 18th century). Definition of decade in US English: decade nounˈdɛkeɪdˈdekād 1A period of ten years. he taught at the university for nearly a decade Example sentencesExamples This volume of published material represents work carried out over a period spanning nearly three decades. Amid the overturned cabinets, he saw decades ' worth of patient records scattered about. Activists feared attacks would only harm a population already devastated by two decades of war and famine. Awarded the CBE in 1994, Rosenthal was one of Britain's most prolific screenwriters in a career spanning more than three decades. The best model for New York is London, which has contracted out all of its bus services to the private sector every three years for nearly two decades. The early decades of the conflict were characterised by a certain dignity and honour. The software industry is just a few decades old while construction is as old as civilization itself. He spent the next three decades pursuing a wide range of activities, both professionally and as hobbies. The council decided on a plan of action at its first extraordinary meeting and emergency debate for nearly a decade last month. The honour will also be conferred on John Shannon, who retired earlier this year after nearly four decades as chairman of York Civic Trust. Just a few of the signs: Impatient investors now hold onto stocks for only one year, on average, down from nearly two years a decade ago. After more than a decade at the helm it looks as if his endeavours may at last pay off. Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider. Young Adam was written almost a decade earlier. The birth rate increased for the third consecutive year following nearly a decade of decline. It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade. Life expectancy edged downward in the decades prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union. His remarkable acting career spanned six decades and scores of movies. The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service. Untangling this problem could take decades of research. 1.1 A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0 (or, by another reckoning, 1) the fourth decade of the nineteenth century Example sentencesExamples The nineties were also a decade of promising new beginnings as new seminaries and schools of theology opened. Even with the decline, the state's hospitals employed more people at the end of the 1990s than at the beginning of the decade. The 1990s were the decade of the development of self management plans for asthma. Ironically, it was actually an album released at the beginning of the next decade, which perhaps best symbolises this period of change. Strike activity remained at relatively high levels during the first two decades of the twentieth century. The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade. The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness. ‘The Sixties did not start, miraculously, with the beginning of the new decade,’ she says. Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion. During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter. This will become obvious by the beginning of the next decade, as the results of the 2010 census begin to rearrange the electoral map. But this is really just to frame the fact that today's the day; the ending of the past decade and the beginning of the next. It was the early 1990s, the beginning of a decade of civil war and chaos. Religion faced its most daunting challenges in the first two decades of the last century. Due to falling world silver prices during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the silver rupee was depreciated. By the end of the 1990s, 52 countries wound up poorer than at the beginning of the decade, according to the report. The major mobile phone companies spent billions of pounds at the beginning of the decade to secure licenses enabling them to offer 3G services in the UK. The 1970s represented the beginning of three remarkable decades of expansion in the TSI. There was, for instance, a flurry of concern during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, and another at the dawn of the twentieth. Germany had become by far Italy's most important trade partner during the two last decades of the nineteenth century. Synonyms age, time, period, era, epoch, century, year, stage 2Each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary. Example sentencesExamples Neighbours and friends who visited Pamela's home yesterday recited prayers and a decade of the rosary in a bid to quieten the restless spirit. Prayers at the graveside were recited by Fr. Cooney, who also led the large congregation in a decade of the Rosary. Then maybe a small group would join hands in a circle in prayer and somebody would begin a decade of the rosary. Pilgrims returning from the monastery at Mount Melleray have been known to stop and say a decade of the rosary for the departed. For me this has ranged from two Hail Mary prayers right up to five decades of the rosary (which takes me about fifteen to twenty minutes). Usage Note that when decade means ‘a division of the rosary,’ the pronunciation is distinct: the stress is on dec-, but the second syllable sounds like id, not ade Origin Late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. decade (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.
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