Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 17 + 1.
- noun The 18th in a set or sequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eight more than ten, or one more than seventeen: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The sum of ten and eight, or seventeen and one.
- noun A symbol representing eighteen units, as 18, or XVIII, or xviii.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eight and ten.
- noun The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
- noun A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as
XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
- adjective being one more than seventeen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.
Chapter 14 2010
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The hellish conditions - the worst snowstorms in eighteen years - are believed to be the first sign of the 'End of Days', as predicted in the Book of Daniel.
Weather Chaos Cripples Britain Dungeekin 2009
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Which means that in eighteen days I have used the web more than most folks.
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In the sixth year I increased the base of my pyramid, so that in eighteen months thereafter the height of my monument was fifty feet above the height of the island.
Chapter 19 2010
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Which means that in eighteen days I have used the web more than most folks.
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(“There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.”)
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Eleven times eighteen is 198. 37 times 463 is 17,131.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Eleven times eighteen is 198. 37 times 463 is 17,131.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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(“There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.”)
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In the sixth year I increased the base of my pyramid, so that in eighteen months thereafter the height of my monument was fifty feet above the height of the island.
Chapter 19 2010
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