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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
eight·y       [ey-tee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural eight·ies, adjective
–noun
1.a cardinal number, ten times eight.
2.a symbol for this number, as 80 or LXXX.
3.a set of this many persons or things.
4.eighties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 80 through 89, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature.
–adjective
5.amounting to 80 in number.
[Origin: bef. 850; ME eighteti, OE eahtatig. See eight, -ty1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
eight·y       (ā'tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. eight·ies
  1. The cardinal number equal to 8 × 10.
  2. eighties
    1. A decade or the numbers from 80 to 89: They were still active in their eighties. Before noon, the temperature shot into the eighties.
    2. often Eighties The decade from 80 to 89 in a century.


[Middle English eighti, from Old English eahtatig; see oktō(u) in Indo-European roots.]

eight'y adj. & pron.
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eighty

adjective
1. being ten more than seventy 

noun
1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Eighty Eight, KY Zip code(s): 42130

Eighty Four, PA Zip code(s): 15330

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Eighty

Eight"y\, a. [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See Eight, and Ten.] Eight times ten; fourscore.

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Eighty

Eight"y\, n. 1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.

2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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