eighty-three
- numeral
- /ˈeɪti θri/
- There were eighty-three participants in the marathon this year.
- eighty-three percent
- eighty-three years
- eighty-three years old
Examples
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I saved eighty-three dollars for my vacation next month.
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At the time of Trump's election, Justice Ginsburg was eighty-three, Kennedy was eighty, and Breyer was seventy-eight.
Academic text (2017) -
- Eighty-three miles an hour.
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I can close my eyes and eighty-three years melt like so much April snow in the afternoon sun.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Consequently, though I'm nearly eighty-three years young, I still look no older than when last we met."
Fiction book (1998) -
And don't try to tell me that an eighty-three-year-old man could stop you from making a phone call.
Fiction book (2002) -
Eighty-three policemen wanted to talk to me.
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Remember, she's eighty-three, and her ways will be different from ours.
Fiction book (2001) -
By the time her tenure was up, the organization had grown to eighty-three branches in twenty-eight states and territories.
Academic text (1990) -
Andrew Sarris, who died today at the age of eighty-three, is the one indispensable American film critic.
Blog text (1)
Synonyms
A Roman numeral for 83
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word eighty-three is made from eighty and three. The eighty part comes from an old English word for eight plus the ending -ty that means 'groups of ten', so eighty-three means 'eighty and three more', or 80 + 3.