TEN COMMANDMENTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ten Commandments mean? 

• TEN COMMANDMENTS (noun)
  The noun TEN COMMANDMENTS has 1 sense:

1. the biblical commandments of Moses

  Familiarity information: TEN COMMANDMENTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEN COMMANDMENTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The biblical commandments of Moses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Decalogue; Ten Commandments

Instance hypernyms:

commandment (something that is commanded)

 Context examples 

But how can it, when it's so contradictory that I don't know whether I've written a promising book or broken all the ten commandments? cried poor Jo, turning over a heap of notices, the perusal of which filled her with pride and joy one minute, wrath and dismay the next.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)