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EIGHTEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eighteen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than seventeen
Synonyms:
18; eighteen; xviii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
During the first six to eighteen months of life development is normal.
(Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Few young ladies of eighteen could be less called on to speak their opinion than Fanny.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A natural number greater than eighteen and less than twenty and the quantity that it denotes.
(Nineteen, NCI Thesaurus)
There were twenty who loosed shafts at him, and when the man was afterwards slain it was found that he had taken eighteen through his forearm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For eighteen years it was as much a mystery to me as to you, Charles.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whale shark can grow to eighteen metres (60 ft) in length.
(New study of endangered whale shark youth shows vital habitat similarities, Wikinews)
A human life stage that begins at twelve years of age and continues until eighteen complete years of age.
(Early Adolescence, NICHD)
All the eighteen species of finches in the archipelago had a common ancestor, from which they evolved in the course of time due to natural selection.
(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)
The proposition I originally submitted, was twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four; but I am apprehensive that such an arrangement might not allow sufficient time for the requisite amount of—Something—to turn up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
