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Eighty

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eight⋅y

  [ey-tee] noun, plural eight⋅ies, adjective
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–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, -ty 1
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eight·y   (ā'tē)   
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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