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Definition of Eighty
1. Adjective. Being ten more than seventy.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight.
Definition of Eighty
1. a. Eight times ten; fourscore.
2. n. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
Definition of Eighty
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80. ¹
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Definition of Eighty
1. a number [n EIGHTIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty
Literary usage of Eighty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"the «ami' emperor Valeria sometimes required eighty pieces of gold for a recruit.
In the following law it in faintly expressed, that slaves shall not be ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"445 (27: 206). nue and along the line of said lot three (3), about eighty-five (85)
feet, to intersect a lino drawn due north from the point of beginning, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"1803, the case of a man, aged eighty-five years, who presented the usual symptoms
of volvulus. There had been complete obstruction for a week. ..."
4. 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)
"Between 8 Dec.; 1869, and 1 Sept., 1870, four public sessions and eighty-nine
general congregations were held here. There were in the entire world ..."
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