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eightieth

eightieth

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The position that is number eighty in a series
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪtiəθ/
translation icon : octogésimo
  • Eightieth and Broadway.

Examples

  • "For my Aunt Gertrude's eightieth," he told the second one in a store at El Con.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • In the race, she finished in eightieth place out of one hundred participants.

  • "From someone this dear to me, especially during the eightieth to eighty-seventh years of his life, was a great gift to me.

    Academic text (2014)

  • But she had an appointment to meet Mr. Centrillo at the Soup Urger on Lexington and Eightieth Street, and she certainly didn't want the driver to report that back to Bill Wolper.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • We celebrated my grandmother's eightieth birthday with a big family party.

  • The eightieth anniversary of the school will be held next month.

Synonyms

80th
vseightieth
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In the eightieth place in a list

is written in words rather than using numerals for the same position

Surface Forms

eightieth singular

Morphology

eightieth = eighty (transparent) = eighty + th

Standard ordinal formation from the cardinal 'eighty' (orthographic change y → i before the suffix), so the meaning '80th' is directly derived.

Etymology

Eightieth is the ordinal form of eight, formed with the ending -ieth. So as a noun, the eightieth names the person or thing that is 'number 80' in a list.