Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ten \Ten\, n.
   1. The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and
      five; ten units of objects.

            I will not destroy it for ten's sake. --Gen. xviii.
                                                  32.

   2. A symbol representing ten units, as 10, {x}, or {X}.

Ten \Ten\, a. [AS. t[=e]n, ti['e]n, t?n, t[=e]ne; akin to
   OFries. tian, OS. tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG. zehan, Icel.
   t[=i]u, Sw. tio, Dan. ti, Goth. ta['i]hun, Lith. deszimt,
   Russ. desiate, W. deg, Ir. & Gael. deich, L. decem, Gr. ?,
   Skr. da[,c]an. [root]308. Cf. {Dean}, {Decade}, {Decimal},
   {December}, {Eighteen}, {Eighty}, {Teens}, {Tithe}.]
   One more than nine; twice five.

         With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea.
                                                  --Dryden.

   Note: Ten is often used, indefinitely, for several, many, and
         other like words.

               There 's proud modesty in merit, Averse from
               begging, and resolved to pay Ten times the gift
               it asks.                           --Dryden.

Source : WordNet®

ten
     adj : being one more than nine [syn: {10}, {x}]

ten
     n : the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the
         base of the decimal system [syn: {10}, {X}, {tenner}, {decade}]