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Meaning of one tenth | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. rare spelling of one-tenth.
    alt-of, rare
  2. A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.

Equivalents

العربية عشر
Bosanski desetina десетина
Suomi kymmenennes kymmenys
Hrvatski desetina десетина
日本語 合
한국어 분
Latviešu desmitdaļa
Српски desetina десетина

Examples

“He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.”
“You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

one third one thousand one-ahead one-and-a-half-spaced one-armed one-celled

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