Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 8 × 10.
- noun A decade or the numbers from 80 to 89.
- noun The decade from 80 to 89 in a century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eight times ten, or one more than seventy-nine; fourscore: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The number greater by one than seventy-nine; the sum of eight tens.
- noun A symbol representing eighty units, as 80, or LXXX, or lxxx.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eight times ten; fourscore.
- noun The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as
LXXX and in Arabic numerals as80 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
- adjective being ten more than seventy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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During this term eighty-one students have been enrolled.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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“She’s fifty-two,” I said to the nurse but mouthed the word eighty when my mother turned away.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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“She’s fifty-two,” I said to the nurse but mouthed the word eighty when my mother turned away.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Around the net in eighty clicks « Publishing Renaissance
Interview with Michael Pastore: Ebooks and Digital Publishing | The Creative Penn 2009
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Like, having to deal with the worst economic crisis in eighty years?
Think Progress » VIDEO: Bret Baier Interviewing Obama Vs. Bret Baier Interviewing Bush 2010
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Because the gap between rich and poor has reached its highest in eighty-one years, the need for action is great.
Elissa D. Barrett: To the Righteous, Wealth Is a Greater Test Than Poverty Elissa D. Barrett 2010
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Because the gap between rich and poor has reached its highest in eighty-one years, the need for action is great.
Elissa D. Barrett: To the Righteous, Wealth Is a Greater Test Than Poverty Elissa D. Barrett 2010
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Because the gap between rich and poor has reached its highest in eighty-one years, the need for action is great.
Elissa D. Barrett: To the Righteous, Wealth Is a Greater Test Than Poverty Elissa D. Barrett 2010
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Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent.
Happy text 2009
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Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent.
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