Definitions for eighteens

eighteens eight·een

Spelling: [ey-teen]
IPA: /ˈeɪˈtin/

Eighteens is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in eighteens (eeeghinst).

Definitions for eighteens

noun

  1. a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 18 or XVIII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

  1. amounting to 18 in number.

Origin of eighteens

before 1000; Middle English ehtetene, Old English eahtatēne; cognate with Old Norse āttjān, German achtzehn. See eight, -teen

Examples for eighteens

eighteen seventy-nine: it was the year her father lost his money.

"It is eighteen years since I was last in this room," he said.

By 1953, the number of Americans owning their own homes climbed to twenty-five million, up from eighteen million in 1948.

Upon retirement, the average corrections officer will survive eighteen months.

It takes eighteen months to two years until it gets decent-sized.

That's a scurvy welcome to give a nephew you haven't seen for eighteen years.

And by the spring of eighteen eighty he was upstairs in his room, too ill to be moved.

eighteen years old, and got hit with an IED his first month there.

We are said to be like, but she is much younger—only eighteen.

In November 1885, the sudden death of her eighteen year-old daughter, Annie, brought Mandelbaum back to New York City.

Word Value for eighteens
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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