eighteen
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
eighteens
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pluralof eighteen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Ooh wee! Yo, Benny, we got steel and eighteens on this one!” he shouted like he was talking about a car.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
Moultrie was four hundred and thirty-five, rank and file; his armament consisted of nine French twenty-sixes, fourteen English eighteens, nine twelve and seven nine pounders.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
On her main deck she carried no less than 30 twenty-four pounders, while on her upper deck she had 24 thirty-two pounders, and two eighteens.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
In ze year 1796 one conscription took place, ant each which vas serviceable, from ze eighteens to ze twenty-first year, hat to go to town.
From Boyhood by C. J. Hogarth
All the thirty-twos are, and most of the eighteens.
From Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
