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Word: Eighty
Speech Type: Numeral
Etymology:
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
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈeɪti
Dialects: British English
Definition:
equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80
Short Definition:ten less than ninety
Examples:- eighty miles north
- a buffet for eighty
- eighty of the nurses fled
Variant Forms:
- lxxx
- LXXX
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