octuplet
4
6.7
- noun
- /ˈɑːktʃəplɪt/
- Specialized
:
octillizo
- The hospital provided special care for the octuplets due to their unique birth situation.
- mother of the octuplets
- octuplet mom
- birth to octuplets
Examples
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Octuplets.
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Does he have three-year-old octuplets barf all over him like I did last year?
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It is one of the many ironies of late-twentieth-century modernity that the African woman celebrated in Houston, Texas, in 1998 for giving birth to the first set of living octuplets should be an Igbo speaker from southeastern Nigeria.
Academic text (2001) -
Nadya Suleman became famous after giving birth to octuplets, making her family well-known across the country.
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Each of the octuplets had their own unique personality, but they shared a close bond as siblings.
Synonyms
1
6.6
A group of eight things treated as one unit, often in computing
A group of eight people or things
A group of eight people who act together
A group of eight musicians or singers that perform together
How Many
- Specialized
4
6.7
5
7.5
4
5.2
4
6.5
4
6.0
29
3.7
587
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word octuplet starts with oct- meaning 'eight', the same part you see in octagon and octopus, and the -uple part means 'fold' or 'times'. So an octuplet is one of eight babies born at the same time.