80
- numeral
- The money came to a little over 80 dollars, which we split evenly.
- 80 percent
- 80 years
- approximately 80
Examples
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UTIs are usually treated with antibiotics, and 80% are prescribed in primary care.
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She scored 80 on her math test, which was her highest grade this semester.
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The strong support of the local government was perhaps 80% of the battle won.
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Brown beat Fortune in the 2010 Democratic primary with 80 percent of the vote.
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Right, so the church holds 80 people and the village hall next door 150.
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The methodology calls for a fast-track approach for around 80 percent of the changes.
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Numbers of service users: 80-100 women and girls have been active in awareness-raising work so far.
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A questionnaire measuring these variables was completed by 80 participants at a Midwestern U.S. university.
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Yearly arrivals ranged from 80 in 2002 to a high of 249 in 2004.
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We're headed into the Ja Bala foothills in the mountain range about 80 kilometers of Tangier to a place called Jajouka.
Synonyms
A number equal to eight times ten
A number equal to eighty
A Roman numeral that means eighty
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
80 Comes from putting eight and -ty together, where -ty meant 'ten' or 'a group of ten'. So 80 literally means 'eight tens', which is why it is eight groups of ten.