tens
number/tɛnz/
Frequency rank: #4,867 most common English word
Meaning
an unspecified number in the range of ten to ninety-nine, often used in the phrase 'tens of' to mean a large multiple of ten.
Example sentence
There were tens of thousands of people at the concert last night.
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