Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eighty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eighty \Eight"y\, a. [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is
akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See {Eight}, and {Ten}.]
Eight times ten; fourscore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eighty \Eight"y\, n.
1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times
repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eighty
adj : being ten more than seventy [syn: {80}, {lxxx}, {fourscore}]
n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
[syn: {80}, {LXXX}, {fourscore}]
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