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eighty-seven

eighty-seven

11 1.0
A number that is seven more than eighty
  • numeral
  • /ˈeɪti ˈsɛvən/
translation icon : ochenta y siete
  • Thirteen of the fifteen candidates (eighty-seven percent) with LCV scores below forty percent were returned to the Senate.
  • eighty-seven percent
  • eighty-seven respondents

Examples

  • Eighty-seven percent of the women we approached agreed to take part in this research.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Eighty-seven patients had one lesion, 16 had two, and 20 had more than two.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Eighty-seven people died in that bar.

    Desperation (2006)

  • Sex: Eighty-seven percent of the respondents were male and 13 percent female.

    Academic text (1997)

  • For two years, I never weighed more or less than eighty-seven pounds.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Your father's eighty-seven years old, Janet.

    Nell (1994)

  • You owe eighty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.

    Chances Are (1989)

  • Eighty-seven percent of the children qualified for free or reduced-price lunch programs.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Chiang Kai-shek died at the age of eighty-seven.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The concert tickets cost eighty-seven dollars each.

Synonyms

lxxxvii
vseighty-seven
9.9

A Roman numeral for eighty-seven

is the word form used to name the quantity instead of symbols

Surface Forms

eighty-seven cardinal word
87 cardinal digit
eighty seven cardinal word

Morphology

eighty-seven = eighty + seven (transparent) = eighty + seven

A straightforward numeric compound where 'eighty' + 'seven' denotes 80 + 7, a relation obvious to learners.

Etymology

The word eighty-seven is simply the number eighty ('eight tens') joined with seven, so it literally means 'seven more than eighty'.