Eighty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eighty \Eight"y\, a. [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is
     akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See {Eight}, and {Ten}.]
     Eight times ten; fourscore.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Eighty \Eight"y\, n.
     1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
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     2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times
        repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eighty
       adj : being ten more than seventy [syn: {80}, {lxxx}, {fourscore}]
       n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
           [syn: {80}, {LXXX}, {fourscore}]