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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
decade
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
years/decades/centuries etc of neglect
▪ After years of neglect, the roads were full of potholes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Here, as in other areas, we see ecology emerging from a deliberate revolt against the evolutionary morphology of earlier decades.
▪ But, like so many young artists in the early decades of the century, Miro could not keep away from Paris.
▪ In the early decades of last century gender differences in late life mortality were very small.
▪ Douglass, in the early decades of this century-although many of the principles had been understood long before that.
▪ Both estimates suggest a significant increase in the numbers of elderly with chronic health problems in the early decades of next century.
▪ In the earlier decade, heavy unemployment in the peripheral regions was also gradually overtaken by consistent national growth.
▪ Nevertheless, Clements' philosophy represents a notable extension of nineteenth-century developmental attitudes into the early decades of the new century.
▪ In the early decades of the century, evangelicals had been constrained by the fear of revolution.
past
▪ Suddenly, the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was.
▪ I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 percent. improvement in productivity during the past decade.
▪ We have played a decisive part in the development of the Community over the past decade.
▪ That would mean the resumption of the heroic and successful anti-motorway battles of the past two decades.
▪ This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade.
▪ On the other hand, the pace of counterurbanization has slowed considerably in the past decade.
▪ The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade.
▪ Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade.
previous
▪ Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade.
▪ Over the previous decade. investors had put only $ 22 million into Lowertown.
▪ Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades.
▪ For most of the previous two decades, McKinsey consultants had concentrated on matters of strategy.
▪ Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade.
▪ In previous decades this would signify certain defeat for the revolution.
▪ Sounds like a familiar blueprint from a previous decade.
▪ This means that sexually active teenagers are using contraceptives more effectively than they have in previous decades.
recent
▪ This affinity or linkage has real historical roots though its importance and character has changed in recent decades.
▪ The basic education level of the general population has risen dramatically in recent decades.
▪ I would like to end by asking what lessons can be drawn from the successes and the disappointments of recent decades.
▪ In recent decades, such questions might have sounded like a drunken hallucination or worse.
▪ Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850, but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades.
▪ In recent decades the elegant, abstracted paintings of the Aboriginal people have become famous around the world.
▪ Furthermore, food productivity has been buoyant throughout the recent decades.
▪ At the same time, in recent decades City, like many other undergraduate colleges, has ramified upward into a quasi-university.
■ VERB
spend
▪ In Britain at least we have spent two decades arguing about what type of nuclear reactor to build.
▪ Social scientists have spent decades trying to discover why some corporate chief executives make more money than others.
▪ This is the approach on which most of the effort - and the money - has been spent in recent decades.
▪ Malcolm Forbes spent a couple of decades in the thickets of New Jersey politics and nearly became governor in the 1950s.
▪ Like other baby boomers who delayed parenthood, she will spend the next two decades defying contemporary ideas of aging.
▪ Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine, Starr has rediscovered his musical roots.
▪ Judith has spent over two decades building her business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But because of their longevity they are expected to go on damaging the ozone layer for decades.
▪ By the end of a decade, it requires artificial means of life support.
▪ For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
▪ I've been at the top in television for a decade, you see, Blanche.
▪ In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.
▪ Such brilliant slickness kept our eyes trained on him for three decades.
▪ The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note.
▪ The remaining web of streets was due for redevelopment - the standard solution to housing decay in the last couple of decades.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decade

Decade \Dec"ade\, n. [F. d['e]cade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr. ?, fr. de`ka ten. See Ten.] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.]

During this notable decade of years.
--Gladstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
decade

mid-15c., "ten parts" (of anything; originally in reference to the books of Livy), from Middle French décade (14c.), from Late Latin decadem (nominative decas), from Greek dekas (genitive dekados) "group of ten," from deka "ten" (see ten). Meaning "period of ten years" is 1590s in English.

Wiktionary
decade

n. 1 A series or group of ten things. (from 16th c.) 2 A period of ten years. (from 17th c.)

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WordNet
decade

  1. n. a period of 10 years [syn: decennary, decennium]

  2. the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X, tenner]

Wikipedia
Decade (Neil Young album)

Decade is a compilation by Neil Young, originally released in 1977 as a triple album, now available on two compact discs. It contains 35 of Young's songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point. It peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1986.

Decade

A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the Ancient Greek dekas which means ten. Other words for spans of years also come from Latin: biennium (2 years), triennium (3 years), quadrennium (4 years), lustrum (5 years), score (20 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years).

Decade (solitaire)

Decade or Ten-Twenty-Thirty is a Patience game played with a traditional 52-card deck. It is akin to another solitaire game called Accordion. Like Accordion, it is traditionally played with the cards in a line; however due its minimal use of space, it can also be played in one hand by placing the deck face-down in the hand, and placing the line in a stack on top of the deck, with the discard pile face up on the bottom (as seen in the images below).

Decade (log scale)

One decade is a factor of 10 difference between two numbers (an order of magnitude difference) measured on a logarithmic scale. Along with the octave, it is a logarithmic unit used to describe frequency bands or frequency ratios. It is especially useful when referring to frequencies and when describing frequency response of electronic systems, such as audio amplifiers and filters.

Decade (disambiguation)

A decade is a set of ten or an interval of length ten. The most common use is to refer to a period of ten years.

Decade, Decad, or Decades may also refer to:

Decade (Live at the El Mocambo)

Decade (Live at the El Mocambo) is the first live album from the Ontario rock band Silverstein, released on June 8, 2010 on Victory.

Decade (play)

Decade is a 2011 play by Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Laverty commemorating the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Its structure is drawn from the work of the choreographer Pina Bausch and it involves a cast of 12. It premièred in St Katharine Docks (the site of London's World Trade Centre) and was performed from 1 September to 15 October 2011, in a production starring Lia Williams and directed by Rupert Goold.

Decade (Israel Houghton album)

Decade is a compilation album of the best songs from Israel & New Breed which were recorded over a ten-year span, 2002 until 2012. It contains songs from both live and studio albums, and includes classics like "You are Good" and "Friend of God". The album was released on March 6, 2012 by Integrity Music.

Decade (The Veer Union album)

Decade is the fourth studio album by alternative rock band The Veer Union. It was released on January 29, 2016. It is their first album in almost four years, and the first to feature an all new lineup outside of frontman and band co-founder Crispin Earl.

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Usage examples of "decade".

This Dionysian pleasure in the release of bestiality and evil, begun by the Viennese Actionists, can be traced through every succeeding decade.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

James Warburg affidavit is not aimed at the original boo but rather at an anti-Semitic book circulated over a decade later.

It was located in impoverished East London, where a decade earlier the tragic Tussy Marx had spent her happiest moments agitating among low-paid Jewish immigrants and found herself unexpectedly drawn to the racial heritage that her father so despised.

He said he saw no reason why such a retrograde amnesia should not thrust backward decades, or almost a whole lifetime.

Cannibalistic behavior predates by decades the appearance of all disease symptoms, and by inference, the appearance of amyloid plaque lesions in the brain tissue.

At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.

Croatia descended into political apathy from which it did not emerge for almost two decades.

Decades elapsed, for instance, before the apologetic theology came to be generally known and accepted in the Church, as is shown by the long continued conflict against Monarchianism.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

She had been required to stand up to Philip for the decade and a half when they had skulked from neighborhood to neighborhood until returning to within two blocks of the house on Auer Avenue where Timothy and Philip were born to Mom and Pop Underhill.

Who now for the last six decades had been the priest in charge of the Franciscan bakery in Jerusalem.

She set an oak bench against the south wall and flanked it with buddleias for the butterflies - and decades later, the Basher, who had fought her all the way, came there to die.

Had beheaded him and beaten him as punishment, had drugged and hypnotized him into decades of dreaming hell.

The province of Quebec, an historic battleground where the French and English settle their differences with weapons and words over the centuries, may have seen more biker murders in the last two decades than all of the United States.