Definition of 'eighty'
Word forms: plural eighties
1. number
Eighty is the number 80.
Eighty horses trotted up.
2. plural noun
When you talk about the eighties, you are referring to numbers between 80 and 89. For example, if you are in your eighties, you are aged between 80 and 89. If the temperature is in the eighties, the temperature is between 80 and 89 degrees.
He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.
3. plural noun
The eighties is the decade between 1980 and 1989.
He ran a property development business in the eighties.
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noun plural -ies
2.
a numeral, 80, LXXX, etc, representing this number
5.
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 80 units
determiner
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Word origin of 'eighty'
Old English eahtatig; related to Old Frisian achtig, Old High German ahtozug adjective
1.
eight times ten
nounWord forms: plural ˈeighties
2.
the cardinal number between seventy-nine and eighty-one; 80; LXXX
Idioms:
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Example sentences containing 'eighty'
Times, Sunday Times (2009) America Past and Present (1995) Man of Honour (2007) THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001) BAD BOY BALLMER (2002)
Eighty pounds they set him back.
Times, Sunday Times (2012) The Sun (2010) The Sun (2010) Times, Sunday Times (2007)Eighty years and he still hadn't taken hold yet.
Christianity Today (2000) Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great
War (2005) Times, Sunday Times (2009) The Complete Stories Volume 2 (1995) Times, Sunday Times (2015)It was under strong inward pressure of this kind that Fred had taken the wise step of depositing the eighty pounds with his mother.
Middlemarch (1872) Daniel Deronda (1876) BomberJupiter, discounting the thickness of its colossal atmosphere, is eighty thousand miles in diameter.
The Complete Stories Volume 2 (1995)At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist forces had eighty thousand men.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and RevengeBy the eighties age group, this was down to 10 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)Before he set out, Fred got the eighty pounds from his mother.
Middlemarch (1872)Eighty thousand women a year lose their lives as a result of heart disease - that's one woman in four.
Alternative Health Care for Women (1991)In one bunker, the bodies of men, women and eighty children aged between one and twelve were heaped together.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)Funny times, the early Eighties.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)Trends of 'eighty'
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Translations for 'eighty'
British English: eighty /ˈeɪtɪ/
NUMBER
Eighty is the number 80.Eighty horses trotted up.
Eighty is the number 80.Eighty horses trotted up.
- Arabic: ثَمانون
- Brazilian Portuguese: oitenta
- Chinese: 八十
- Croatian: osamdeset
- Czech: osmdesát
- Danish: firs
- Dutch: tachtig
- European Spanish: ochenta
- Finnish: kahdeksankymmentä
- French: quatre-vingt
- German: achtzig
- Greek: ογδόντα
- Italian: ottanta
- Japanese: 八十
- Korean: 80
- Norwegian: åtti
- Polish: osiemdziesiąt
- Portuguese: oitenta
- Romanian: optzeci
- Russian: восемьдесят
- Spanish: ochenta
- Swedish: åttio
- Thai: แปดสิบ
- Turkish: seksen
- Ukrainian: вісімдесят
- Vietnamese: tám mươi
Source
Definition of eighty from the
Collins English Dictionary
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