Definition of eighty in English:

eighty

cardinal number ˈeɪtiˈeɪdi

1Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80.
eighty miles north
a buffet for eighty
eighty of the nurses fled
Example sentencesExamples
- The fish had probably taken some eighty or ninety yards of line in its first rush, then kited to my left.
- Driving at eighty miles per hour wasn't something new for him.
- By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.
- We kept walking, and ended up spending about eighty dollars on school stuff.
- When we left the precinct the detective said they would reimburse us the eighty dollars.
- Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois.
- I paid eighty dollars to go to a concert on my own.
- They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with.
- The only reason anyone would work sixty or eighty hours a week would be to pay off a credit card or some similar emergency.
- In the early '80's, the few major studio releases available on videotape usually cost about eighty dollars.
- If they come to you and say, ‘we'll give you a million dollars for eighty percent of the company’ - then you don't have a company any more.
- Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark.
- The New Zealand Government has announced a new Arts, Culture And Heritage package worth eighty million dollars.
- Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh.
- ‘I had eighty dollars with me,’ she said practically in tears.
- Per capita income is estimated to be less than eighty dollars a year.
- I think it's about eighty or ninety years old at most, but it has an extremely unusual quality.
- I read somewhere that a child, whose parents both smoke twenty a day, has inhaled the equivalent of eighty cigarettes worth of passive smoke in one year.
- Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears.
- There is little interest in classical communitarian living, and most of the eighty to ninety staff members now live off the site in conventional nuclear family units.
1. 1.1eighties The numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
  his grandmother was in her eighties
  Example sentencesExamples
  From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level.
  He was in his early eighties and spent most of his life abroad, but made regular visits home.
  Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings.
  My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous.
  How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties.
  It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic.
  The reunion has taken place regularly every two years and was initiated in the mid eighties.
  In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry.
  A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties.
  Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.
  But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties.
  Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way.
  She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound.
  The largest number of persons with dementia occurs in people in their early eighties.
  For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration.
  Sadie, who was in her eighties, was a lady with an outgoing and friendly personality.
  I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties.
  Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years.
  During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston.
  There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties.
2. 1.2 Eighty years old.
  he was over eighty at the time
  Example sentencesExamples
  A man of a guessable age of eighty sat at a desk stacked high with papers.
  I found that he had died in 1988 at the age of eighty.
  At the age of eighty, she ventured into a new exercise of her faculties by writing a novel.
  At age eighty, he began to focus on a new challenge.
  Along the route, I spotted children as young as two on baby-seats on the back of their parents bikes as well as adults up to the age of eighty on their own.
  Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
  Bruce says he'll take anyone from the age of eight to eighty if they're keen.
  It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign.
  At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night.
  He passed away in 1996, near the age of eighty, but was a strong, feisty man.
  He was a cross-country skier until the age of eighty.
  Cartoon Art Classes take place every Saturday from 10 to 11.30 a.m. for ages eight to eighty.
  Should I so decide to challenge my brain, The College caters for students; ages from twelve to eighty, so I would fit in there somewhere.
3. 1.3 Eighty miles an hour.
  roaring down the highway doing eighty
  Example sentencesExamples
  When we got in the jeep he sped about eighty down the highway.
  She was going eighty, ninety; the adrenaline quickly taking over.
  She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time.
  Eric's gut was burning as he scanned the ticket, registering the two hundred dollar fine for going eighty.
  He pushed the speed up to eighty on a forty mile road.
  You should've seen her last night, driving at seventy miles per hour going on eighty, blasting rock music.

Derivatives

eightieth

ordinal number ˈeɪtɪəθˈeɪdiəθ

1Constituting number eighty in a sequence; 80th.
an eightieth birthday tribute
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, here we are, 2003 already, and next birthday will be my eightieth.
- The New Yorker celebrates its eightieth anniversary with a travelling exhibition of memorable cartoons inked by notable cartoonists from the past eight decades.
- The thought of having to listen for eightieth time to some youngster reciting ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ and still having to retain some benign encouraging smile seems to me to be beyond the call of duty.
- an eightieth of the Earth's mass
2Each of eighty equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

eightyfold

adjective & adverb

In 2003, imports from China were worth $3.3 billion, an eightyfold rise over 1992.
Example sentencesExamples
- An eightyfold increase in coal production led to the need for more lumber for mine props, timbers, and planks.

Origin

Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta 'eight' + -tig (see -ty²); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period.

Rhymes

Albacete, Haiti, Katy, Kuwaiti, Leyte, matey, pratie, slaty, weighty

Definition of eighty in US English:

eighty

cardinal numberˈādēˈeɪdi

1Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80.
eighty miles north
a buffet for eighty
eighty of the nurses fled
Example sentencesExamples
- By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.
- Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois.
- Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh.
- When we left the precinct the detective said they would reimburse us the eighty dollars.
- They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with.
- Per capita income is estimated to be less than eighty dollars a year.
- Driving at eighty miles per hour wasn't something new for him.
- I paid eighty dollars to go to a concert on my own.
- Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears.
- The only reason anyone would work sixty or eighty hours a week would be to pay off a credit card or some similar emergency.
- There is little interest in classical communitarian living, and most of the eighty to ninety staff members now live off the site in conventional nuclear family units.
- In the early '80's, the few major studio releases available on videotape usually cost about eighty dollars.
- Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark.
- ‘I had eighty dollars with me,’ she said practically in tears.
- We kept walking, and ended up spending about eighty dollars on school stuff.
- I think it's about eighty or ninety years old at most, but it has an extremely unusual quality.
- If they come to you and say, ‘we'll give you a million dollars for eighty percent of the company’ - then you don't have a company any more.
- The fish had probably taken some eighty or ninety yards of line in its first rush, then kited to my left.
- The New Zealand Government has announced a new Arts, Culture And Heritage package worth eighty million dollars.
- I read somewhere that a child, whose parents both smoke twenty a day, has inhaled the equivalent of eighty cigarettes worth of passive smoke in one year.
1. 1.1eighties The numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
  his grandmother was in her eighties
  Example sentencesExamples
  But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties.
  In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry.
  There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties.
  It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic.
  Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.
  The reunion has taken place regularly every two years and was initiated in the mid eighties.
  My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous.
  During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston.
  Sadie, who was in her eighties, was a lady with an outgoing and friendly personality.
  I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties.
  Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way.
  How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties.
  She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound.
  From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level.
  A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties.
  For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration.
  The largest number of persons with dementia occurs in people in their early eighties.
  Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings.
  He was in his early eighties and spent most of his life abroad, but made regular visits home.
  Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years.
2. 1.2 Eighty years old.
  he was over eighty at the time
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bruce says he'll take anyone from the age of eight to eighty if they're keen.
  He was a cross-country skier until the age of eighty.
  Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
  He passed away in 1996, near the age of eighty, but was a strong, feisty man.
  Should I so decide to challenge my brain, The College caters for students; ages from twelve to eighty, so I would fit in there somewhere.
  At the age of eighty, she ventured into a new exercise of her faculties by writing a novel.
  Cartoon Art Classes take place every Saturday from 10 to 11.30 a.m. for ages eight to eighty.
  It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign.
  Along the route, I spotted children as young as two on baby-seats on the back of their parents bikes as well as adults up to the age of eighty on their own.
  A man of a guessable age of eighty sat at a desk stacked high with papers.
  At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night.
  At age eighty, he began to focus on a new challenge.
  I found that he had died in 1988 at the age of eighty.
3. 1.3 Eighty miles an hour.
  roaring down the highway doing eighty
  Example sentencesExamples
  When we got in the jeep he sped about eighty down the highway.
  Eric's gut was burning as he scanned the ticket, registering the two hundred dollar fine for going eighty.
  He pushed the speed up to eighty on a forty mile road.
  She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time.
  You should've seen her last night, driving at seventy miles per hour going on eighty, blasting rock music.
  She was going eighty, ninety; the adrenaline quickly taking over.

Origin

Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta ‘eight’ + -tig (see -ty); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period.

单词	eighty
释义	Definition of eighty in English: eighty cardinal number ˈeɪtiˈeɪdi 1Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80. eighty miles north a buffet for eighty eighty of the nurses fled Example sentencesExamples The fish had probably taken some eighty or ninety yards of line in its first rush, then kited to my left. Driving at eighty miles per hour wasn't something new for him. By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms. We kept walking, and ended up spending about eighty dollars on school stuff. When we left the precinct the detective said they would reimburse us the eighty dollars. Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois. I paid eighty dollars to go to a concert on my own. They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with. The only reason anyone would work sixty or eighty hours a week would be to pay off a credit card or some similar emergency. In the early '80's, the few major studio releases available on videotape usually cost about eighty dollars. If they come to you and say, ‘we'll give you a million dollars for eighty percent of the company’ - then you don't have a company any more. Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark. The New Zealand Government has announced a new Arts, Culture And Heritage package worth eighty million dollars. Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh. ‘I had eighty dollars with me,’ she said practically in tears. Per capita income is estimated to be less than eighty dollars a year. I think it's about eighty or ninety years old at most, but it has an extremely unusual quality. I read somewhere that a child, whose parents both smoke twenty a day, has inhaled the equivalent of eighty cigarettes worth of passive smoke in one year. Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears. There is little interest in classical communitarian living, and most of the eighty to ninety staff members now live off the site in conventional nuclear family units. 1.1eighties The numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person's life. his grandmother was in her eighties Example sentencesExamples From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level. He was in his early eighties and spent most of his life abroad, but made regular visits home. Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings. My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous. How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties. It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic. The reunion has taken place regularly every two years and was initiated in the mid eighties. In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry. A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties. Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times. But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties. Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way. She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound. The largest number of persons with dementia occurs in people in their early eighties. For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration. Sadie, who was in her eighties, was a lady with an outgoing and friendly personality. I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties. Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years. During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston. There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties. 1.2 Eighty years old. he was over eighty at the time Example sentencesExamples A man of a guessable age of eighty sat at a desk stacked high with papers. I found that he had died in 1988 at the age of eighty. At the age of eighty, she ventured into a new exercise of her faculties by writing a novel. At age eighty, he began to focus on a new challenge. Along the route, I spotted children as young as two on baby-seats on the back of their parents bikes as well as adults up to the age of eighty on their own. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen Bruce says he'll take anyone from the age of eight to eighty if they're keen. It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign. At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night. He passed away in 1996, near the age of eighty, but was a strong, feisty man. He was a cross-country skier until the age of eighty. Cartoon Art Classes take place every Saturday from 10 to 11.30 a.m. for ages eight to eighty. Should I so decide to challenge my brain, The College caters for students; ages from twelve to eighty, so I would fit in there somewhere. 1.3 Eighty miles an hour. roaring down the highway doing eighty Example sentencesExamples When we got in the jeep he sped about eighty down the highway. She was going eighty, ninety; the adrenaline quickly taking over. She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time. Eric's gut was burning as he scanned the ticket, registering the two hundred dollar fine for going eighty. He pushed the speed up to eighty on a forty mile road. You should've seen her last night, driving at seventy miles per hour going on eighty, blasting rock music. Derivatives eightieth ordinal number ˈeɪtɪəθˈeɪdiəθ 1Constituting number eighty in a sequence; 80th. an eightieth birthday tribute Example sentencesExamples Well, here we are, 2003 already, and next birthday will be my eightieth. The New Yorker celebrates its eightieth anniversary with a travelling exhibition of memorable cartoons inked by notable cartoonists from the past eight decades. The thought of having to listen for eightieth time to some youngster reciting ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ and still having to retain some benign encouraging smile seems to me to be beyond the call of duty. an eightieth of the Earth's mass 2Each of eighty equal parts into which something is or may be divided. eightyfold adjective & adverb In 2003, imports from China were worth $3.3 billion, an eightyfold rise over 1992. Example sentencesExamples An eightyfold increase in coal production led to the need for more lumber for mine props, timbers, and planks. Origin Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta 'eight' + -tig (see -ty²); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period. Rhymes Albacete, Haiti, Katy, Kuwaiti, Leyte, matey, pratie, slaty, weighty Definition of eighty in US English: eighty cardinal numberˈādēˈeɪdi 1Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80. eighty miles north a buffet for eighty eighty of the nurses fled Example sentencesExamples By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms. Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois. Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh. When we left the precinct the detective said they would reimburse us the eighty dollars. They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with. Per capita income is estimated to be less than eighty dollars a year. Driving at eighty miles per hour wasn't something new for him. I paid eighty dollars to go to a concert on my own. Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears. The only reason anyone would work sixty or eighty hours a week would be to pay off a credit card or some similar emergency. There is little interest in classical communitarian living, and most of the eighty to ninety staff members now live off the site in conventional nuclear family units. In the early '80's, the few major studio releases available on videotape usually cost about eighty dollars. Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark. ‘I had eighty dollars with me,’ she said practically in tears. We kept walking, and ended up spending about eighty dollars on school stuff. I think it's about eighty or ninety years old at most, but it has an extremely unusual quality. If they come to you and say, ‘we'll give you a million dollars for eighty percent of the company’ - then you don't have a company any more. The fish had probably taken some eighty or ninety yards of line in its first rush, then kited to my left. The New Zealand Government has announced a new Arts, Culture And Heritage package worth eighty million dollars. I read somewhere that a child, whose parents both smoke twenty a day, has inhaled the equivalent of eighty cigarettes worth of passive smoke in one year. 1.1eighties The numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person's life. his grandmother was in her eighties Example sentencesExamples But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties. In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry. There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties. It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic. Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times. The reunion has taken place regularly every two years and was initiated in the mid eighties. My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous. During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston. Sadie, who was in her eighties, was a lady with an outgoing and friendly personality. I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties. Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way. How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties. She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound. From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level. A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties. For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration. The largest number of persons with dementia occurs in people in their early eighties. Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings. He was in his early eighties and spent most of his life abroad, but made regular visits home. Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years. 1.2 Eighty years old. he was over eighty at the time Example sentencesExamples Bruce says he'll take anyone from the age of eight to eighty if they're keen. He was a cross-country skier until the age of eighty. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen He passed away in 1996, near the age of eighty, but was a strong, feisty man. Should I so decide to challenge my brain, The College caters for students; ages from twelve to eighty, so I would fit in there somewhere. At the age of eighty, she ventured into a new exercise of her faculties by writing a novel. Cartoon Art Classes take place every Saturday from 10 to 11.30 a.m. for ages eight to eighty. It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign. Along the route, I spotted children as young as two on baby-seats on the back of their parents bikes as well as adults up to the age of eighty on their own. A man of a guessable age of eighty sat at a desk stacked high with papers. At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night. At age eighty, he began to focus on a new challenge. I found that he had died in 1988 at the age of eighty. 1.3 Eighty miles an hour. roaring down the highway doing eighty Example sentencesExamples When we got in the jeep he sped about eighty down the highway. Eric's gut was burning as he scanned the ticket, registering the two hundred dollar fine for going eighty. He pushed the speed up to eighty on a forty mile road. She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time. You should've seen her last night, driving at seventy miles per hour going on eighty, blasting rock music. She was going eighty, ninety; the adrenaline quickly taking over. Origin Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta ‘eight’ + -tig (see -ty); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period.
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