What does eighty mean?

Definitions for eighty
ˈeɪ tieighty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eighty, 80, LXXX, fourscoreadjective

    the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

  2. eighty, 80, lxxx, fourscoreadjective

    being ten more than seventy

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eightyadjective

    Eight times ten; fourscore.

    Etymology: eight and ten.

    Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
    And each hour’s joy wreck’d with a week of teen. William Shakespeare.

    Among all other climactericks three are most remarkable; that is, seven times seven, or fortynine; nine times nine, or eighty one; and seven times nine, or the year sixtythree, which is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 12.

Wikipedia

  1. eighty

    80 (eighty) is the natural number following 79 and preceding 81.

ChatGPT

  1. eighty

    Eighty is an even, cardinal number that falls between seventy-nine and eighty-one, represented as '80' in numerical form. It is significant as it also represents four score, a term famously used in the Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln. Moreover, 80 is the number of years in a "four score" and is often considered a milestone in age. In Roman numerals, it is represented as LXXX.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eightyadjective

    eight times ten; fourscore

  2. Eightynoun

    the sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects

  3. Eightynoun

    a symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx

  4. Etymology: [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See Eight, and Ten.]

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'eighty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #326

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eighty in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eighty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of eighty in a Sentence

  1. Dean Heller:

    Eighty percent of what this president has done has been very, very good, very positive.

  2. Tucker Carlson:

    I mean, the truth is, he is as unlikely a candidate, really, as Donald Trump, [Sanders] is without charm. He is elderly. He is running on an economic program that is eighty years old and has proven not to work, and yet he is drawing crowds of people who know for a certainty that he is not going to win—and they’re coming out anyway.

  3. Mark Lamb:

    Eighty-five percent of the people that are in my jail right now are there because of alcohol or drugs. So yeah, it's a big impact in our communities.

  4. Eduard Basurin:

    Eighty percent of Debaltseve is already ours, a cleanup of the town is under way.Kiev's military denied the town, which had a peacetime population of 25,000 but is now a bombed-out wasteland, had fallen but acknowledged losing control of some of it. Some Ukrainian soldiers had been captured, it said, but denied rebel reports that up to 300 had surrendered or been taken prisoner. Kiev and NATO say the rebel military operation to take Debaltseve is being carried out with the assistance of tanks, artillery and soldiers from Russia's army. Moscow denies that it has sent its forces to participate in battle for territory that President Vladimir Putin has referred to as.

  5. Chikabo Kumada:

    “ I’ve been doing this work for more than eighty years now, but for me it’s like I am writing reports for God. Like I’m showing what kind of place this planet called Earth is.”

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