decades

We have found lemma(root) word of decades : decade.

Definitions


[dɪˈkeɪd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a period of ten years
(e.g: he taught at the university for nearly a decade)

- each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary
(e.g: a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary)

- a range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value
(e.g: power per decade of frequency)


Phrases:

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




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