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eighty-seven

[ ey-tee-sev-uhn ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 7.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 87 or LXXXVII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 87 in number.

eighty-seven

noun

  1. cricket a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eighty-seven1

possibly because 13 less than a century
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Example Sentences

Eighty-seven percent of New Yorkers stopped are black or Latino.

Eighty-seven percent said yep, the weekend golfer and father of two sure is.

In America, when asked eighty-seven percent of the public favored building more wind farms.

The duty of this engine, in the month of April this year, equalled eighty-seven millions.

Whilst writing the final words of this chapter the news reaches me of the death of Mr. Mills, at the fine old age of eighty-seven.

On a division, the amendment to reject the bill was carried by a majority of one hundred and eighty-seven against eighty-five.

On a division, the motion was negatived by two hundred and eighty-seven against forty-nine.

When we got back to the raft and he come to count up he found he had collected eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.

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