eighty-one

American  

[ey-tee-wuhn] / ˈeɪ tiˈwʌn /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 81 in number.

Example Sentences

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

It became the most award-winning franchise in television history, with eighty-one Emmys.

From The New Yorker

At mile eighty-one of the New York State Thruway, the gray silhouettes of the Catskills come into view, perfectly framed and proportioned.

From The New Yorker

The next day, the same plane, with a hundred and eighty-one passengers and a new crew, took off from Jakarta.

From The New Yorker

I’m just one person, who at seventy-one doesn’t feel as good as he did at sixty-one, and who is fairly certain that he’s going to feel even worse at eighty-one.

From The New Yorker