decad

English

Noun

decad (plural decads)

Archaic form of decade (“period of ten years”).
- Tennyson
  Averill was a decad and a half his elder.
Archaic form of decade. (group of ten)
- Thomas Taylor, translating Aristotle in The Physics, or Physical Ausculation of Aristotle (1806) p. 167.
  Plato […] extends number as far as to the decad.

Coordinate terms

monad · duad, dyad · triad · tetrad · pentad · hexad · heptad · octad · ennead, nonad · decad, decade · hendecad · dodecad, duodecade

Anagrams

caded

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