eighty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 81 or LXXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Which led him to Cary Grant, which led him to Michael Jackson, which led him back to the point that even Cary Grant wouldn’t have looked good in a bathing suit at age eighty-one.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
In Canada, “the toll was $100 million, and eighty-one dead.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
Like Hockney himself, hale and fruitful at the age of eighty-one, the film has weathered well.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
In 2016, the number rose to seven hundred and eighty-one million.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2019
He spoke into the stone, calling all of his nine sons and daughters and his twenty-seven grandchildren and his eighty-one greatgrandchildren to meet Windrider again that night at a feast.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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