eighty
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- numeral
- /ˈeɪti/
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- We want to give you eighty cents on the dollar to take over your contract.
- eighty percent
- eighty-five
- eighty-eight
And you know, if I'm that way at eighty, I'll be fine with it.
- And you know, if I'm that way at eighty, I'll be fine with it.
Examples
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His mother was sitting eighty feet away, under a beach umbrella near the pool.
Fiction book (1990) -
Eighty-six percent of the teachers report increased classroom participation, and eighty percent reported improvement in boys' attitudes toward school.
Academic text (2011) -
And that was back in the days when some men paid eighty dollars for a suit.
Fiction book (1990) -
China fired six missiles at an area only eighty miles north of Taiwan.
Academic text (1999) -
In a healthy mangrove, we might have seen eighty species and hundreds of birds.
Academic text (1990) -
He's so political that eighty percent of the people you see are his enemies.
Fiction book (1991) -
By now, most of them earn up to eighty to eighty-five percent of our family earnings.
Academic text (1990) -
The inside temperature could not have been far above eighty-five, which somehow seemed comfortable to Ryan.
Fiction book (1991) -
"We are approaching a pregnancy rate of eighty percent," Mr. Carstans said with obvious pride.
Fiction book (1991) -
The temperature reached a high of eighty degrees today, making it a perfect day for the beach.
Synonyms
A number equal to eighty
A Roman numeral that means eighty
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Etymology
The word eighty comes from eight plus the ending -ty, which means 'ten' and appears in words like twenty and thirty. So eighty literally means 'eight tens', which is why it equals 80.