eighty-two

American  

[ey-tee-too] / ˈeɪ tiˈtu /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 2.

2. a symbol for this number, as 82 or LXXXII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 82 in number.

Example Sentences

“I write fiction to make sense of the world I have known in my eighty-two years of life,” Ms. Grumbach told the reference work Contemporary Novelists in 2000.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Or that he would threaten to surpass Sam Snead’s record total of eighty-two PGA Tour victories, which he tied in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020

For the many former staffers who’ve come and gone through the Center’s revolving doors—I left in 2004—the queasy feelings came rushing back last week, when the news broke that Dees, now eighty-two, had been fired.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2019

“We know Austin longs to walk free. Two thousand, two hundred and eighty-two days. Austin urgently needs to be free. Maybe soon.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

Gerhardt Fischer, the man listed on Bobby’s birth certificate as his father, was living in Berlin, and at eighty-two he was not in good health.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady