What does eight mean?

Definitions for eight
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octetnoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

  2. Ashcan School, Eightnoun

    a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life

  3. eight-spot, eightadjective

    one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

  4. eight, 8, viiiadjective

    being one more than seven

Wiktionary

  1. eightnoun

    The digit/figure 8.

  2. eightnoun

    Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

  3. eightnoun

    A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which a eight rowers each have two oars

  4. eightnoun

    A race in which such craft participate

  5. Etymology: From eight, aught, eahte, ahte, from eahta, from ahtōu, from oḱtṓw. Cognate with aucht, acht, acht, acht, acht, åtta, átta, octo, ὀκτώ, ocht.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. EIGHTadjective

    Twice four. A word of number.

    Etymology: eahta, Saxon; ahta, Gothick; acht, Scottish.

    This island contains eight score and eight miles in circuit. George Sandys, Journey.

ChatGPT

  1. eight

    Eight is a numerical value equivalent to the sum of four and four. It comes after seven and before nine in the counting system, and is considered an even number. The numeral symbol for eight is "8". In Roman numerals, it is represented as VIII.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eightnoun

    an island in a river; an ait

  2. Eightadjective

    seven and one; as, eight years

  3. Eightnoun

    the number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects

  4. Eightnoun

    a symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii

  5. Etymology: [See Ait.]

Wikidata

  1. Eight

    Eight was released in 2000 and is the eighth studio album by British rock band, New Model Army. Following the departure of Robert Heaton, Michael Dean and Dean White were recruited into the band, who also co-produced Eight with Justin Sullivan.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Eight

    āt, n. the cardinal number one above seven: the figure (8 or viii.) denoting eight.—adj. noting the number eight.—adjs. and ns. Eight′een, eight and ten, twice nine; Eight′eenmō, same as Octodecimo (q.v.); Eight′eenth, the ordinal number corresponding to eighteen.—n. Eight′foil (her.), an eight-leaved grass.—adjs. Eight′fold, eight times any quantity; Eighth, the ordinal number corresponding to eight.—n. an eighth part.—adv. Eighth′ly, in the eighth place.—adjs. and ns. Eight′ieth, the ordinal number corresponding to eighty; Eight′y, eight times ten, fourscore.—An eight, a crew of a rowing-boat, consisting of eight oarsmen; An eight-oar, or simply Eight, the boat itself; An eight days, a week; Figure of eight, a figure shaped like an 8 made in skating; Piece of eight, a Spanish coin; The eights, annual bumping boat-races which take place in the summer term in Oxford and Cambridge between the various colleges. [A.S. eahta; Ger. acht, L. octo, Gr. oktō.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'eight' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #847

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'eight' in Written Corpus Frequency: #193

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eight in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of eight in a Sentence

  1. Phil Nevin:

    Look, you play eight games in a matter of a week against the same team, things like this happen, the scheduling, tensions, that’s baseball sometimes, unfortunately. There’s some ugly incidents once in a while. I think that’s just what happened today.

  2. Samir Puri:

    It's going to be very different to what people have been seeing in Kyiv and Mariupol, the Ukrainian frontline mixes urban and rural territory... some of the urban territories that Ukraine( will be defending) were already devastated in eight years of shell fire.

  3. Valentin Popov:

    The prestige and attractiveness of the profession have declined very seriously because of the low wages, the starting (monthly) salary of a policeman and a fire-fighter is only 662 levs ($383) before taxes. The minimum and the average wage in the country rose by more than 50 percent in the last eight or nine years while the salaries in the interior ministry rose by only 15 percent in the same period.

  4. Hulusi Akar:

    We expect the other eight countries who are partners in this project to fulfill their responsibilities towards us.

  5. Steve Nash:

    Obviously my career didn't end in the fashion that I wanted it to, at the same time, I've had an incredibly long career, 18 seasons. I've had back issues predominantly throughout my career and so when you have that in perspective, I could have very easily been finished eight, nine or 10 years into my career.

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