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Eighty Moderate

Eighty has 3 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Adjective · Num

Definitions
Noun
1

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

"The eighty students gathered in the hall to celebrate their graduation."

Adjective
1

being ten more than seventy

"The number eighty is exactly ten greater than seventy."

Num
1

The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

"The teacher collected exactly eighty dollars from the class fundraiser."

See Also
seventy nine eightysomething octogesimal eighty eight fourscore eighty one lxxx eighteen
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
large integer

Origin

The word eighty comes from Old English, where it originally meant "eight by tens." It is built from the root for eight combined with a suffix indicating multiples of ten.

Rhyming Words
yachty tighty righty nighty mighty lighty cushty fighty blighty flighty noughty frighty plighty weighty doughty naughty haughty almighty alrighty sleighty
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