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Definition of Eighty-eight
1. Adjective. Being eight more than eighty.
Definition of Eighty-eight
1. Cardinal numeral. Number between eighty-seven and eighty-nine; decimal 88 ¹
2. Cardinal numeral. An abbreviation for 'Hugs and kisses' in amateur radio. Used especially in Morse code. ¹
3. Cardinal numeral. (context: slang) A piano (from the number of keys) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-eight
Literary usage of Eighty-eight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"The section of land granted by the act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, to the Territory of Wyoming for a fish hatchery and other ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Five special committees, each presided over by a cardinal and having together
eighty-eight consultora, prepared the plan ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and four thousand three hundred and eighty-eight houses, which, for their size
or beauty, deserved to be distinguished from the multitude of plebeian ..."
4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"On the county of Laurens, four hundred seventy-five dollars and eighty-eight cents.
On the county of Pulaski, six hundred and sixty-four dollars. ..."
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