Definition of "ten"

ten

/tɛn/

numeral
1. The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural tens
1. A set or group with ten elements.
2. (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
  Quotations
  An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
  2023 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine‎
6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
7. (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
  Quotations
  At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
  1911, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486
  Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.
  1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history, page 105