释义
[ ey -tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈeɪ ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun, plural eight·ies. a cardinal number, ten times eight.
a symbol for this number, as 80 or LXXX.
a set of this many persons or things.
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 amounting to 80 in number.
Origin of eighty before 850; Middle English eighteti, Old English eahtatig. See eight, -ty1
Words nearby eighty eights, eightsome reel, eight-spot, eight-track tape, eightvo, eighty , eighty-eight, eighty-eighth, eighty-fifth, eighty-first, eighty-five
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British Dictionary definitions for eighty noun plural -ies the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 80, LXXX, etc, representing this number
(plural) the numbers 80–89, esp a person's age or the year of a particular century
the amount or quantity that is eight times as big as ten
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 80 units
determiner amounting to eighty eighty pages of nonsense (as pronoun ) eighty are expected Word Origin for eighty Old English eahtatig; related to Old Frisian achtig, Old High German ahtozug
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