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EIGHTEEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eighteen mean?
• EIGHTEEN (noun)
The noun EIGHTEEN has 1 sense:
1. the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
Familiarity information: EIGHTEEN used as a noun is very rare.
• EIGHTEEN (adjective)
The adjective EIGHTEEN has 1 sense:
1. being one more than seventeen
Familiarity information: EIGHTEEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("eighteen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than seventeen
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We were ten weeks in our journey, and I was shown in eighteen large towns, besides many villages, and private families.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Eighteen of them all in a row, some short, some deep, some branching, same as we saw them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How was your memory when you were eighteen, sir?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
That was eighteen years ago, an' I've never done a tap of anything else.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
About eighteen hundred or two thousand a year; not more than THAT.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nursed her as a baby, and came with her to England when they first left Australia, eighteen months ago.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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