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eighty-one

eighty-one

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A number that comes after eighty and before eighty-two
  • numeral
  • /ˈeɪti wʌn/
translation icon : ochenta y uno
  • But remember, he was eighty-one years old.
  • eighty-one percent
  • eighty-one years

Examples

  • Eighty-one percent identified as white, and 19 percent as another race or ethnicity.

    Academic text (2010)
  • But how can I rest easy when my sister's up here all alone, depending on me, and I'm eighty-one years old?

    Fiction book (1993)
  • And I'll be eighty-one, as you reminded me.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Eighty-one percent of mothers reported an educational level of high school or less.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Griswold was eighty-one when he fell and cut himself on a sickle.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • "I've lived eighty-one years," Annie says, "without soaking up a single drop of alcohol."

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Eighty-one teachers and 284 children from regular Dutch kindergarten classes were involved.

    Academic text (2008)
  • When Anthony Hecht died in 2004, at the age of eighty-one, his Collected Later Poems had been out from Knopf for three years.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Eighty-one targeted principals in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina completed and returned a questionnaire.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The concert attracted an audience of eighty-one people.

Surface Forms

eighty-one cardinal word
81 cardinal digit
eighty one cardinal word

Morphology

eighty-one = eighty + one (transparent) = eighty + one

A straightforward hyphenated numeric compound: the value is derived directly as eighty plus one.

Etymology

Eighty-one is made from eighty, which is eight plus the ending -ty meaning 'groups of ten', and one, so it simply means 'eight tens and one'.