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EIGHTY-EIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eighty-eight mean?
• EIGHTY-EIGHT (adjective)
The adjective EIGHTY-EIGHT has 1 sense:
1. being eight more than eighty
Familiarity information: EIGHTY-EIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being eight more than eighty
Synonyms:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples
A natural number greater than eighty-eight and less than ninety and the quantity that it denotes.
(Eighty Nine, NCI Thesaurus)
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