ten commandments

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   the biblical commandments of Moses

   SynonymsDecalogue

   Broadercommandment

Questions about ten commandments

What does ten commandments mean?

ten commandments means "the biblical commandments of Moses".

What is another word for ten commandments?

Close synonyms include Decalogue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ten commandments a common word?

ten commandments is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.