EIGHTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eighty mean? 

• EIGHTY (noun)
  The noun EIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

  Familiarity information: EIGHTY used as a noun is very rare.

• EIGHTY (adjective)
  The adjective EIGHTY has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than seventy

  Familiarity information: EIGHTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EIGHTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

80; eighty; fourscore; LXXX

Hypernyms ("eighty" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• EIGHTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than seventy

Synonyms:

80; eighty; fourscore; lxxx

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

The openings were about eighty feet above the ground, and were led up to by long stone stairs, so narrow and steep that no large animal could mount them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That's forty-five dollars for a week's work, one hundred and eighty dollars a month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A murine IgG2a monoclonal antibody directed against the HLA-Dr10 protein, a cell surface marker present on over eighty percent of lymphoma cells.

(Monoclonal Antibody Lym-1, NCI Thesaurus)

“Two hundred and eighty pounds,” I answered.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Only a fool would travel at such a temperature. If it isn't eighty below, it's because it's seventy- nine."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And well he might be, eighty feet above the deck, to trust himself on those thin and jerking ropes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty—cram full of gout, too.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the morning of the day on which the courses were to be run, not less than eighty people had assembled round the lists and along the low grassy ridge which looks down upon the scene of the encounter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)