Definitions for eighty

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eighty eight·y

Spelling: [ey-tee]

IPA: /ˈeɪ ti/

Eighty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in eighty (eghity).

Definitions for eighty

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten times eight.
2. a symbol for this number, as 80 or LXXX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. eighties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 80 through 89, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature.

adjective

1. amounting to 80 in number.

Origin of eighty

before 850; Middle English eighteti, Old English eahtatig. See eight, -ty¹

Examples for eighty

eighty percent of women will never press charges, and in most cases, will never tell anyone.

eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.

For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.

The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.

At thirty he is more than he was at twenty; at fifty more than he was at thirty; at eighty more than he was at fifty.

Are you a millionaire,' his face said, 'to pay eighty francs for one day's drive?

eighty percent of these abortion clinics in Texas are going to be basically out of business because of this new law.

They consist of three groups, and there are, in all, about eighty pyramids.

We have not seen any permanent water for the last eighty miles.

I had made a blunder in thinking eighty miles only eighty miles under any circumstances.