Decade ˈdekeɪd Noun Bre Hines Spent Austin Texas

• hines has spent the last decade in austin, texas.
• now entering her fourth decade, the singer is living alone in new york.
• the past decade has seen a huge rise in the number of broadband users.
• this decade began badly for us.

decade

1. a period of ten years, especially a continuous period, such as 1910–1919 or 2000–2009

Extra Examples

• Hines has spent the last decade in Austin, Texas.
• Now entering her fourth decade, the singer is living alone in New York.
• The past decade has seen a huge rise in the number of broadband users.
• This decade began badly for us.
• This decade has passed uneventfully.
• a career spanning four decades
• almost a full decade of unparalleled economic growth
• the early decades of the 19th century
• The effects of climate change have been increasingly apparent over the last decade.
• The nineties were a decade of rapid advances.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.