Definitions for eight

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eight eight

Spelling: [eyt]

IPA: /eɪt/

Eight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in eight (eghit).

Definitions for eight

noun

1. a cardinal number, seven plus one.
2. a symbol for this number, as 8 or VIII.
3. a set of this many persons or things, as the crew of an eight-oared racing shell.
4. a playing card the face of which bears eight pips.
5. Informal. an automobile powered by an eight-cylinder engine. an eight-cylinder engine.

adjective

1. amounting to eight in number.

Origin of eight

before 1000; Middle English eighte, Old English (e)ahta; cognate with Dutch acht, Old Saxon, Old High German ahto (German acht), Old Norse ātta, Gothic ahtau, Latin octō, Greek oktṓ, Old Iris

Examples for eight

One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

At eight o'clock we got under way, and followed along the river.

The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

Sir, it is not; it has existed for the last seven or eight years.

I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

After a year of that, he'll be taken into the office and his hours will be cut down to eight.

These are eight of the most interesting laws passed in the second session of the 113th Congress.

Dar was an ole sow dar, an' perhaps eight or ten little pigs.

He also said there was a well of good water about eight miles further on.