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eighty

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪti/
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Definition of eighty

number (plural eighties)

  • equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80:eighty miles north a buffet for eighty eighty of the nurses fled (Roman numeral: lxxx or LXXX)
  • (eighties) the numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person’s life:his grandmother was in her eighties
  • eighty years old:he was over eighty at the time
  • eighty miles an hour:roaring down the highway doing eighty

Derivatives

eightieth

number

eightyfold

adjective & adverb

Origin:

Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta 'eight' + -tig (see -ty2); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period

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Definition of eighty in the US English dictionary
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