decade
noun, /dɪˈkeɪd//ˈdekeɪd/, /dɪˈkeɪd/
Слово англійською: decade
Переклад decade українською: десятиліття
Детальний опис
- a period of ten years, especially a continuous period, such as 1910–1919 or 2000–2009
- the early decades of the nineteenth century
- The nineties were a decade of rapid advances.
- a career spanning five decades
- over a decade He's changed a lot over the past decade.
- for decades The war may be short but the environmental impacts could last for decades.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.