different between tens vs noughties

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

tens

1. plural of ten

tens pl (plural only)

1. (poker slang) A pair of tens.
2. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• ENTs, NEST, Sten, ents, nest, nets, sent, sent., snet

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin t?nsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.

Adjective

tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)

1. tense, taut

Etymology 2

Verb

tens

1. second-person singular present indicative form of tenir

Further reading

• “tens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tens” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

tens m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)

1. Alternative form of tans

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ns/

Noun

tens (plural tenses or tens)

1. (grammar) tense

Descendants

• English: tense

References

• “tens(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?j?s/, /?t?j??/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t??j??/

Verb

tens

1. Second-person singular (tu) present indicative of ter

Swedish

Noun

tens

1. indefinite genitive singular of ten

Anagrams

• Sten, sent, sten

English

Alternative forms

• Noughties
• naughties
• Naughties

Etymology

nought (“zero”) +? -ies (“plural of -y”), in imitation of the names of other decades (twenties, thirties, etc)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??tiz/

Noun

noughties pl (plural only)

1. The first decade of a century: from 1900 to 1909, 2000 to 2009, etc.

Synonyms

• the 2000s
• the 1900s (rare)
• the aughts, oughts
• the zeroes, Zeroes (rare)
• the '00s

Usage notes

• A nonce word, sometimes avoided because it is a homonym with naughties; it is even sometimes spelled "Naughties". Terms such as at the turn of the century or in the early years of the century are more common. In context, as during that decade or in the immediately following years, or in a list of decades, the 1900s/nineteen-hundreds and 2000s is commonly used, but this becomes ambiguous in a broader context, as the 1900s more commonly means the entire century, and the 2000s may mean the entire millennium. The first decade of the twentieth century is frequently referred to as the Edwardian era in the UK, as it coincides very closely with the reign of King Edward VII.
• Like twenties, etc, the word is sometimes capitalised.

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Anagrams

• Shogunite