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A Writer's Dictionary:

tenthly Definition


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tenth
adj
    1a. In counting: next after ninth;
    1b. In counting: last of ten.
    2. In tenth position.
    3a. The tenth day of the month;
      Form: the tenth
    3b. golf.
      The tenth hole.
      Form: the tenth
noun
    1. One of ten equal parts. Also as adj.
      Example: a tenth share
    2. A fraction equal to one divided by ten (usually written &onetenth; ).
    3. Someone who comes tenth, eg in a race or exam.
      Example: He finished a respectable tenth
    4a. music.
      An interval of an octave and a third;
    4b. music.
      A note at that interval from another.
adverb
    1. Tenthly.
Derivative: tenthly
adverb
    Used to introduce the tenth point in a list.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon; see ten + -th.



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