The word 'decade' is a noun, a singular, common, abstract noun; a word for a period of ten years or a group or set of ten, a thing.
Decennial
A period of ten years is called a decade. Sometimes a decade is used more specifically, to refer to a ten-year period that starts with a year that ends in zero. For example, "the sixties" or "the 1960s" refers to the years 1960-1969.
A synonym for every five years is quinquennial: as an adjective describes something that happens every five years or that lasts for five years; the noun means the fifth anniversary or a period of five years.
Decade is prounonced Deck aid or if you visit dictionary.com they have a sound bite that will allow you to hear it pronounced DECK-aid
1970s
A decade
A new decade was upon the world.
The 2020 Olympics will be in one decade.
We have lived in this house for more than a decade
We have seen much change in this recent decade.
I've been grounded for the rest of the decade. This decade has seen many improvements in our lives.
I haven't heard that expression in at least the last decade. We've seen a lot of technology progress in this decade.
The 1960s decade was one of great change and space exploration.
A decade is 10 years; I always thought it was at least 100 years.
The word 'decade' is a noun, a word for a period of ten years or a group of ten.A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Example sentences:The decade of that hairstyle gives my age away. (subject of the sentence)It has been a decade since I last saw her. (direct object of the verb 'has been')
I haven't seen my great grandmother for over a decade. The 1960's was a decade of great social change in the United States.
In the last decade there was terror in the west. The 1940s DECADE experienced World War, V-J Day and the start of the Cold War.
Examples of sentences with the word "decade" in it are as follows: I've waited sooooo long, practically a decade, to win the beauty pageant. Today, on my tenth birthday, I am officially a decade old. The Roaring Twenties lasted a whole decade.