Standard Lemma guide

tenfold

adj · adv · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈtɛnfoʊld/
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  • CMU ARPABET: T EH1 N F OW2 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Ten times as much or as many.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Containing ten parts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adv

Meaning 3

By ten times as much.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

containing ten or ten parts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ten-fold, denary

Antonyms: none provided

6

adverb

Meaning 6

by ten times as much

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the population increased tenfold

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald, equivalent to ten + -fold.

Across languages

Translations

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: десеторен (desetoren) — ten times as much or as many
  • Catalan: dècuple — ten times as much or as many
  • Chinese Mandarin: 十倍的 (shí bèi de) — ten times as much or as many
  • Esperanto: dekoble — ten times as much or as many
  • Finnish: kymmenkertainen — ten times as much or as many
  • French: décuple — ten times as much or as many
  • Hindi: दसगुना (dasgunā) — ten times as much or as many
  • Hungarian: tízszeres — ten times as much or as many
  • Hungarian: tízszer akkora/annyi — ten times as much or as many
  • Italian: decuplo — ten times as much or as many
  • Latin: decuplus — ten times as much or as many
  • Polish: dziesięciokrotny — ten times as much or as many
  • Portuguese: décuplo — ten times as much or as many
  • Russian: десятикратный (desjatikratnyj) — ten times as much or as many
  • Swedish: tiofaldig — ten times as much or as many
  • Telugu: పదింతలు (padintalu) — ten times as much or as many
  • Welsh: decplyg — ten times as much or as many
  • Welsh: ar ei ddegfed — ten times as much or as many
  • Bulgarian: десеторен (desetoren) — containing ten parts
  • Finnish: kymmenosainen — containing ten parts
  • Hungarian: tízrészes — containing ten parts
  • Hungarian: tízes — containing ten parts
  • Hungarian: tízrétű — containing ten parts
  • Italian: decuplo — containing ten parts
  • Polish: dziesięcioczęściowy — containing ten parts
  • Serbo-Croatian: десетострук — containing ten parts
  • Serbo-Croatian: desetostruk — containing ten parts
  • Welsh: decplyg — containing ten parts
  • Bulgarian: десеторно (desetorno) — by ten times as much
  • Dutch: vertienvoudigen — by ten times as much
  • Finnish: kymmenkertaisesti — by ten times as much
  • French: décupler — by ten times as much
  • Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת מוֹנִים ('aséret moním) — by ten times as much
  • Hindi: दसगुना (dasgunā) — by ten times as much
  • Hungarian: tízszeresen — by ten times as much
  • Hungarian: tízszeresére — by ten times as much
  • Italian: decuplicare — by ten times as much
  • Occitan: desenar — by ten times as much
  • Polish: dziesięciokrotnie — by ten times as much
  • Polish: dziesięciokroć — by ten times as much
  • Portuguese: decuplicar — by ten times as much
  • Portuguese: decuplar — by ten times as much
  • Russian: десятикратно (desjatikratno) — by ten times as much
  • Serbo-Croatian: десетоструко — by ten times as much
  • Serbo-Croatian: desetostruko — by ten times as much
  • Swedish: tiofalt — by ten times as much
  • Welsh: yn ddecplyg — by ten times as much
  • Welsh: ar ei ddegfed — by ten times as much
  • Catalan: decuplicar — increase to ten times as much
  • Finnish: kymmenkertaistaa — increase to ten times as much
  • Hindi: दसगुना (dasgunā) — increase to ten times as much
  • Hungarian: megtízszerez — increase to ten times as much
  • Hungarian: megtízszereződik — increase to ten times as much
  • Hungarian: tízszeresére nő — increase to ten times as much
  • Polish: zdziesięciokrotnić — increase to ten times as much
  • Polish: zdziesięciokrotniać — increase to ten times as much
  • Romanian: înzeci — increase to ten times as much
  • Spanish: decuplicar — increase to ten times as much
  • Spanish: decuplar — increase to ten times as much