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a cardinal number, ten plus eight. a symbol for this number, as 18 or XVIII. a set of this many persons or things. Show More
amounting to 18 in number. Show More
Origin of eighteen before 1000; Middle English ehtetene, Old English eahtatēne; cognate with
Old Norse āttjān, German achtzehn. See
eight ,
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Examples from the Web for eighteen Contemporary Examples of eighteen In November 1885, the sudden death of her eighteen year-old daughter, Annie, brought Mandelbaum back to New York City.
By 1953, the number of Americans owning their own homes climbed to twenty-five million, up from eighteen million in 1948.
Eighteen years old, and got hit with an IED his first month there.
It takes eighteen months to two years until it gets decent-sized.
Upon retirement, the average corrections officer will survive eighteen months.
Historical Examples of eighteen "It is eighteen years since I was last in this room," he said.
That's a scurvy welcome to give a nephew you haven't seen for eighteen years.
We are said to be like, but she is much younger—only eighteen .
Eighteen seventy-nine: it was the year her father lost his money.
That was the beginning of her illness, February, eighteen eighty-three.
British Dictionary definitions for eighteen the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and eight and the product of two and nine See also number (def. 1) a numeral, 18, XVIII, etc, representing this number the amount or quantity that is eight more than ten something represented by, representing, or consisting of 18 units (functioning as singular or plural) a team of 18 players in Australian Rules football Show More
amounting to eighteen eighteen weeks (as pronoun ) eighteen of them knew Show More
Word Origin for eighteen Old English eahtatēne; related to Old Norse attjan, Old High German ahtozehan
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Word Origin and History for eighteen n. late 14c., eightene , earlier ahtene (c.1200), from Old English eahtatene , eahtatyne ; see eight + -teen . Cf. Old Saxon ahtotian , Dutch achttien , Old High German ahtozehan , German achtzehn , Old Norse attjan , Swedish adertån .
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