Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 80 in a series.
- noun One of 80 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next after the seventy-ninth: an ordinal numeral.
- noun The quotient of unity divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective The next in order after seventy-ninth.
- adjective Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
eighty . - noun The person or thing in the eightieth position.
- noun One of eighty equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of eighty in counting order
- noun position 80 in a countable series of things
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lady Bird Johnson celebrated her eightieth birthday in her red evening gown.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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What drives you—just months shy of your eightieth birthday—to continue to work so hard?
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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No wonder that I backed out one afternoon without raising the door, smashing it to pieces, like an idiot, or a man speeding into his eightieth year.
Homestead 2009
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What drives you—just months shy of your eightieth birthday—to continue to work so hard?
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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No wonder that I backed out one afternoon without raising the door, smashing it to pieces, like an idiot, or a man speeding into his eightieth year.
Homestead 2009
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I know Apache and he's no Apache., but he looked so white, you'd have taken him for eightieth generation Bostonian.
Tales from the old Sonoran desert # 47 James Lloyd Davis 2011
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Ertegun explained: The name Atlantic was probably about our eightieth choice, because every name we came up with . . . had already been taken. . .
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He defined real intelligence as akin to being on the eightieth floor of a building while everyone else is on the ground trying to find their way with a map.
Molly Baker: Steve Jobs: Oh Captain (Of Industry) My Captain! 2010
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Her mother-in-law, Jessie Danz, was active in the Seattle Jewish Family and Child Services for many years, and Carolyn chaired the organization's eightieth anniversary celebration in 1972.
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Of his own end, Grandpa had often said to me and Grace as though teasing us with a riddle, "I will spring into my eightieth year, but I will not spring out of it."
The Legacy 2010
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