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Definition of Decennium
1. Noun. A period of 10 years.
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Specialized synonyms: 1900s, 1530s, 1920s, Twenties, 1820s, 1930s, Thirties, 1830s, 1940s, Forties, 1840s, 1950s, Fifties, 1850s, 1750s, 1960s, Sixties, 1860s, 1760s, 1970s, Seventies, 1870s, 1770s, 1980s, Eighties, 1880s, Eighties, 1780s, 1990s, Nineties, 1890s, Nineties, 1790s
Terms within: Twelvemonth, Year, Yr
Group relationships: Century
Definition of Decennium
1. n. A period of ten years.
Definition of Decennium
1. Noun. A period of ten years. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decennium
1. a decade [n -NIA or -NIUMS] - See also: decade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decennium
Literary usage of Decennium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1871)
"The number of patients admitted to the wards was consequently less than in any
other year during the last decennium, this being rendered necessary by ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1866)
"Having now practised in this country for more than ten years, I have collected
vital statistics for this last decennium, and arranged them into the ..."
3. Practical Sanitation by Fletcher Gardner, James Persons Simonds (1914)
"Out of every 100000 of the population 48 died in the decennium 1868-1877, 7 in
that of 1878-1887, 3 in that of 1888-1897, and 2 in that of 1907, ..."
4. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"CHAPTER XIII THE LAST " decennium " Tiberius at the head of the government—Tiberius
fn Germania —Political reforms of Augustus—The law against the orbi— The ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... 1765), which treats of his observations in connexion with the latitude and
longitude of his observatory, and "decennium ..."
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