Definitions for eighties

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eighties eight·y

Spelling: [ey-tee]

IPA: /ˈeɪ ti/

Eighties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in eighties (eeghiist).

Definitions for eighties

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 eighties

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

Examples for eighties

It broke down the strength of Mr. Gladstone's Government in the eighties.

The archaeologist Sarah Nelson is in her eighties, and she would go dig in China this minute if she could get grant money.

The epigram, with its faint whiff of the eighties, meant nothing.

The images tend to be followed by an equally non-contextual eighties reference and nothing more is said.

The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science.

Back in the eighties, no one knew about a hot glue gun except display people.

He had time to go over to the precinct station in the West eighties first.

Its eighties music is so cheesy and the struggle is so real.

I first met him one Fourth of July afternoon in the middle eighties.

These two belong to the group known as "the Men of the eighties."