eighty-three

American  

[ey-tee-three] / ˈeɪ tiˈθri /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 3.

2. a symbol for this number, as 83 or LXXXIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 83 in number.

Example Sentences

The total was 117, and it included his wife, daughters, sixteen freemen—overseers and other paid workmen—and eighty-three slaves.

From Literature

The man sitting across from me at an oilcloth-covered kitchen table was eighty-three.

From Literature

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”

From Literature

But not eighty-three dollars and sixty-two cents better.

From Literature

“It ended eighty-three years, six months, and twenty-one days ago. It was a cherry-blossom day.”

From Literature