From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtenthtenth1 /tenθ/ ●●● S3 W3 adjective HMNcoming after nine other things in a series in the tenth century her tenth birthday —tenth pronoun I’m planning to leave on the tenth (=the tenth day of the month).
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tenth• October is the tenth month.the tenth• Let's have dinner on the tenth.tenthtenth2 noun [countable] HMPARTone of ten equal parts of somethingExamples from the Corpus
tenth• The group plans to sell 20 acres, or about a tenth of the developable land, this year.• The cobalt abundance is usually about a tenth of the nickel concentration.• Just a tenth of the cells of our bodies are human.• It emitted less than a tenth as much radiation.• No shareholder is allowed to own more than a tenth of the company.• A tenth of people who drank such water are doomed to die, say doctors. 