eighty-one

[ ey-tee-wuhn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 81 or LXXXI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 81 in number.

Example Sentences

Eighty-one may seem old, but her death—by common consensus—was too soon.

From The Daily Beast

Eighty-one percent think nonmedical use is “not dangerous at all” or only “slightly dangerous.”

From The Daily Beast

After much hype from my cooks at eighty one, I finally visited Franny's in Brooklyn... WOW!

From The Daily Beast

Eighty-one years later, the substance produced by the Penicillium notatum fungus is still in wide use as an antibiotic.

From The Daily Beast

On a division, the motion was negatived by one hundred and twenty-nine against eighty-one.

From Project Gutenberg

On a division, the motion was rejected by a majority of three hundred and eighty-one against one hundred and twenty-five.

From Project Gutenberg

There are eighty-one thousand of these blocks and each of them prints an entire page of a Buddhist text.

From Project Gutenberg

Just as the testy trade of Upsal demanded the franchise for its eighty-one women, so would the Lowell mill.

From Project Gutenberg

She was two hundred and eighty-one feet long, fifty-two feet broad, and drew twenty-three feet of water.

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