What part of speech is decade?

Decade can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. decade is a noun, singular of decades.

Inflections

Noun

What does decade mean?

Definitions

Noun

decade - a period of 10 years
decade - the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

Examples of decade

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1. noun In the last decade, there has been a real and significant increase in childhood and, to a certain extent, adult carcinoma of the thyroid in contaminated regions of the former Soviet Union (Wi940) which should be attributed to the Chernobyl accident until proven otherwise.
2. noun Over the past decade, Bangladesh has steadily moved into a state of lawlessness.
3. noun But if experience is any guide, nothing would stand in the way of Dr. Ayman Zawahiri's decade-long quest to weaponize and use anthrax against US targets that was described by one confidante to an Egyptian newspaper reporter.
4. noun The CIA has known of Zawahiri's plans to use anthrax for a half decade.
5. noun A recently released islamist who had been a close associate of Zawahiri said that Zawahiri spent a decade and had made 15 separate attempts to recruit the necessary expertise to weaponize anthrax in Russia and the Middle East.
6. noun Under the leadership of Governor Bush and others we have made real progress in Education in Texas over the past decade.?
7. noun In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran.
8. noun China's wider aggression to secure oil and gas was the greatest threat to its international standing in the next decade.
9. noun China's overtures to join the U.S.-led effort to develop the 16-nation international space station have been thwarted for more than a decade over a range of issues, including the Asian country's human rights policies and worries it could acquire technologies that could pose a security threat.
10. noun $5.5b - Estimated cost to secure fully US ports over the Next decade.
11. noun $5.6t - Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
12. noun We have experienced many changes over the last decade.
13. noun I lost my son about a decade ago.
14. noun It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.
15. noun She has been married to him for a decade now.
Sentence  
noun
In the last decade, there has been a real and significant increase in childhood and, to a certain extent, adult carcinoma of the thyroid in contaminated regions of the former Soviet Union (Wi940) which should be attributed to the Chernobyl accident until proven otherwise.
Over the past decade, Bangladesh has steadily moved into a state of lawlessness.
But if experience is any guide, nothing would stand in the way of Dr. Ayman Zawahiri's decade-long quest to weaponize and use anthrax against US targets that was described by one confidante to an Egyptian newspaper reporter.
The CIA has known of Zawahiri's plans to use anthrax for a half decade.
A recently released islamist who had been a close associate of Zawahiri said that Zawahiri spent a decade and had made 15 separate attempts to recruit the necessary expertise to weaponize anthrax in Russia and the Middle East.
Under the leadership of Governor Bush and others we have made real progress in Education in Texas over the past decade.?
In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran.
China's wider aggression to secure oil and gas was the greatest threat to its international standing in the next decade.
China's overtures to join the U.S.-led effort to develop the 16-nation international space station have been thwarted for more than a decade over a range of issues, including the Asian country's human rights policies and worries it could acquire technologies that could pose a security threat.
$5.5b - Estimated cost to secure fully US ports over the Next decade.
$5.6t - Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the decade when Bush took office in 2001.
We have experienced many changes over the last decade.
I lost my son about a decade ago.
It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.
She has been married to him for a decade now.

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