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EIGHTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eighty" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than seventy
Synonyms:
80; eighty; fourscore; lxxx
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Eighty feet beneath, I could see the agonized strain of his muscles as he gripped for very life.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And now, if I do but step into the parlour, I can see her once more, with over eighty years of saintly life behind her, silver-haired, placid-faced, with her dainty ribboned cap, her gold-rimmed glasses, and her woolly shawl with the blue border.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords, of the bigness of packthread, were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Some eighty or a hundred males, the last survivors, had been driven across that same little clearing which led to the edge of the cliff, the scene of our own exploit two days before.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The eighty, I know, despise me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Faulkner claimed to be champion of the seniors, and even old Buckhorse’s curious call rang out above the tumult as he turned the whole company to laughter and good humour again by challenging anything over eighty and under seven stone.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
