eighty
- a cardinal number, ten times eight.
- a symbol for this number, as 80 or LXXX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- eighties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 80 through 89, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature.
- amounting to 80 in number.
Origin of eighty
Examples from the Web for eighty
Contemporary Examples of eighty
For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.
Eighty percent of these abortion clinics in Texas are going to be basically out of business because of this new law.
The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
Eighty percent of women will never press charges, and in most cases, will never tell anyone.
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Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.
Historical Examples of eighty
We have not seen any permanent water for the last eighty miles.
Explorations in AustraliaJohn Forrest
At thirty he is more than he was at twenty; at fifty more than he was at thirty; at eighty more than he was at fifty.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
They consist of three groups, and there are, in all, about eighty pyramids.
Are you a millionaire,' his face said, 'to pay eighty francs for one day's drive?
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
I had made a blunder in thinking eighty miles only eighty miles under any circumstances.
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
eighty
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eightSee also number (def. 1)
- a numeral, 80, LXXX, etc, representing this number
- (plural) the numbers 80–89, esp a person's age or the year of a particular century
- the amount or quantity that is eight times as big as ten
- something represented by, representing, or consisting of 80 units
- amounting to eightyeighty pages of nonsense
- (as pronoun)eighty are expected