eight
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1.0
- numeral
- /eɪt/
:
ocho
- The team scored eight points in the final quarter to win the game.
- eight years old
- eight years
- eight hours
Yeah, listen, I would do eight mile run no problem.
- Yeah, listen, I would do eight mile run no problem.
- The light stays a light for eight days and eight nights.
- And this was eight years ago or more.
- So I'm already serving eight years for burglary.
- And, well, he had spent eight years in the wilderness.
- Me and my boyfriend Brian have been together for eight years.
- And what had happened was within eight weeks of taking those jabs.
- Fort Worth Photo Fest went for the first eight years as Fort Worth Photo Fest.
- And then after, I don't know, eight or nine months, he hired me back.
- And you're a little girl, And I'm eight years old.
- We just have eight single bit things in parallel.
- And in the last seven or eight years, all that has changed.
Examples
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We've gone to camp together for eight years.
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The score is currently eight to seven.
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And this was eight years ago or more.
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So it's nearly been eight years, which is crazy.
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No, can you push number eight, please?
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Of the 13 child participants, eight were girls and five were boys.
Academic text (2011) -
Me and my boyfriend Brian have been together for eight years.
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Saturday, I'll pick ya up at eight.
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Generally, judges serve six to eight years before facing the voters in a retention election.
Academic text (2011) -
"Before this," Coe said, "I had a job for eight years on a horse farm."
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
1
9.9
A group of eight things
The number eight
A group of eight people or things
Idioms
- Informal
3
9.6
In a difficult situation with little chance to make things better
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
Compounds
- Archaic
3
9.9
An old Spanish silver coin worth eight reales used widely in trade from the 1500s to 1800s
- Specialized
A knot tied near the rope end that stops it slipping through a hole and looks like the number eight
Surface Forms
Etymology
Eight comes from the old English word eahta and is related to Latin octo and Greek okto, all meaning 'eight'. So words like octagon and octopus show the same 'eight' idea, which helps you remember the number eight.