eighty

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noun, plural eight·ies.

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.

adjective

amounting to 80 in number.

Origin of eighty

before 850; Middle English eighteti, Old English eahtatig. See eight, -ty¹

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Examples from the Web for eighty

Contemporary Examples

For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.
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November 30, 2014
Eighty percent of these abortion clinics in Texas are going to be basically out of business because of this new law.
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Sally Kohn
October 7, 2014
The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
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August 21, 2014
Eighty percent of women will never press charges, and in most cases, will never tell anyone.
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May 29, 2014
Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.
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May 26, 2014

Historical Examples

We have not seen any permanent water for the last eighty miles.
Explorations in Australia
John 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 Fear
Basil King
They consist of three groups, and there are, in all, about eighty pyramids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Various
Are you a millionaire,' his face said, 'to pay eighty francs for one day's drive?
The Roof of France
Matilda Betham-Edwards
I had made a blunder in thinking eighty miles only eighty miles under any circumstances.
The Roof of France
Matilda Betham-Edwards

British Dictionary definitions for eighty

eighty

noun plural -ies

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

determiner

1. amounting to eightyeighty pages of nonsense
2. (as pronoun)eighty are expected

Word Origin

Old English eahtatig; related to Old Frisian achtig, Old High German ahtozug

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Word Origin and History for eighty

n.

eigteti (late 13c.), from eight + -ty (1). Replacing Old English hundeahtatig, with hund- "ten." Related: Eightieth.

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Examples from the Web for eighty

Contemporary Examples

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.

Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.

Historical Examples

We have not seen any permanent water for the last eighty miles.

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.

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?

I had made a blunder in thinking eighty miles only eighty miles under any circumstances.

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Word Origin and History for eighty

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