eighty-five
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- adjective
- /ˈeɪti faɪv/
- Her accommodations were designed to carry fifty-five first-class passengers, eighty-five second-class, and 370 third-class.
- eighty-five percent
- eighty-five years
- eighty-five years old
Examples
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Joel drove to Durango, eighty-five miles southwest of Palisades, to get the paper printed.
Fiction book (1999) -
The only problem was the girl weighed only about eighty-five pounds, dripping wet.
Fiction book (1993) -
Already, those over eighty-five years of age constitute the fastest growing age group.
Academic text (1992) -
The Mayor keeps his thermostat set on eighty-five and still cannot get warm.
Fiction book (1993) -
According to one government official, the party has a total membership of eighty-five in Almaty.
Academic text (1994) -
By now, most of them earn up to eighty to eighty-five percent of our family earnings.
Academic text (1990) -
I mean, I don't want to sound abrupt, but he lived for eighty-five years, and then he died.
Fiction book (1998) -
Towing the Courier to the impound garage cost eighty-five dollars, then another thirty-five a day for storage.
Fiction book (1992) -
My grandmother turned eighty-five last week and celebrated with a big party.
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The book contains eighty-five recipes that are easy to follow.
Synonyms
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The number eighty-five written in Roman numerals
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Morphology
Etymology
The word eighty-five is made from the number words eighty and five, so it literally means 'eighty and five more' or '80 + 5'. That's why eighty-five is used to name the number 85 or to say someone is 85 years old.