eighth

[ eytth, eyth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventh.
2. being one of eight equal parts.

noun

1. an eighth part, especially of one (⅛).
2. the eighth member of a series.
3. Music. octave.

adverb

1. in the eighth place; eighthly.

eighth

/ eɪtθ /

adjective

1. usually prenominal
   1. coming after the seventh and before the ninth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of eight: often written 8th
   2. ( as noun )

      the eighth in line

noun

1. 1. one of eight equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, measurement, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      an eighth part

2. the fraction equal to one divided by eight ( 1 8 )
3. See octave
   another word for octave

adverb

1. Alsoeighthly after the seventh person, position, event, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of eighth¹

before 1000; Middle English eightethe, Old English eahtotha; cognate with Old High German ahtoda, Old Norse āttandi, Gothic ahtud-. See eight, -th ²

Example Sentences

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.

From The Daily Beast

Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year.

From The Daily Beast

She was a beanpole growing up, before gaining 30 pounds after getting her period in eighth grade.

From The Daily Beast

On the third circuit they make up just 17 percent of justices, and on the eighth circuit 18 percent.

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He lost the bet on the twenty-eighth question, when a duplicate birthday turned up.

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John of Damascus, an important Greek theologian of the eighth century, often cited by Thomas.

From Project Gutenberg

In the eighth line we have “bells” seven times repeated in all—bells being taken in their utmost generality, viz., musical action.

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On the eighth of the said month it was washed, and another small grain of gold obtained, of the same size as the preceding.

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The steam in ordinary working was shut off when the piston had moved from an eighth to a quarter of its stroke.

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Then, measured by inhabitants, it was the fifth town in Ireland; now it is the eighth.

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