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[ ey-tee-sev-uhn ] / ˈeɪ tiˈsɛv ən /
nouna cardinal number, 80 plus 7. a symbol for this number, as 87 or LXXXVII. a set of this many persons or things. adjectiveamounting to 87 in number. Words nearby eighty-seveneighty-nine, eighty-niner, eighty-ninth, eighty-one, eighty-second, eighty-seven, eighty-seventh, eighty-six, eighty-sixth, eighty-third, eighty-three Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for eighty-sevenEighty-seven percent said yep, the weekend golfer and father of two sure is. Poll: Daily Beast Readers on Obama Approval, GOP & Odds of a Romney Win|Brian Ries|September 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST In America, when asked eighty-seven percent of the public favored building more wind farms. Winds of Change: A Status Report|Daily Beast Promotions|January 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST The wall was eighty-seven feet broad, and three hundred and fifty feet high. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study|Dwight Moody Yes, it was as M'sieu said, eighty-seven--that is, counting himself. The Forest|Stewart Edward White
At any rate there they lay upon the ground, eighty-seven of them, each with his throat slit from ear to ear. The History of Cuba, vol. 3|Willis Fletcher Johnson One of the stories of the old Wiltshire days I picked up was from an old woman, aged eighty-seven, in the Wilton workhouse. A Shepherd's Life|W. H. Hudson Las Casas did not live to finish the task, though he labored upon it down to 1561, when he was eighty-seven years old. Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery|Justin Winsor
British Dictionary definitions for eighty-seven
nouncricket a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky Word Origin for eighty-sevenpossibly because 13 less than a century Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |