eighty-eight
- numeral
- /ˈeɪtiˌeɪt/
- A piano's only got eighty-eight keys, you know.
- eighty-eight percent
- eighty-eight members
- eighty-eight teachers
Examples
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The Tribal Council consists of eighty-eight members, also elected to four-year terms.
Academic text (1998) -
Two hundred teachers were asked to participate in the study, and eighty-eight teachers participated in this study by returning surveys.
Academic text (2006) -
A total of eighty-eight students took part in the survey.
Academic text (2001) -
In addition to these fifteen species, John discovered that eighty-eight other species are now extremely rare or local.
Academic text (1991) -
Eighty-eight percent of the treatment group fully completed their treatment contracts, thus confirming the first hypothesis.
Academic text (2003) -
Eighty-eight percent replied that bullying was a minor problem in their school.
Academic text (2008) -
Eighty-eight girls at a high school in the Intermountain West were the participants in this study.
Academic text (2011) -
The result is a total of eighty-eight constellations that all astronomers today accept by international agreement.
Academic text (1990) -
Eighty-eight percent of the requests were from domestic growers; the rest were from foreign countries," says Pederson.
Academic text (2003) -
My grandfather lived to be eighty-eight, which gave us many cherished memories.
Synonyms
A Roman numeral that stands for the number 88
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eighty-eight is a simple number name made from eighty ('eight tens') and eight ('8'), so it literally means 80 + 8 = 88. Think of a piano's 88 keys to remember the number.