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eighties

English

Alternative forms

  • (of the decade) 'eighties

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e?tiz

Noun

eighties

  1. plural of eighty

eighties pl (plural only)

  1. The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
    • 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172,
      He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.
  2. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
  3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.

Synonyms

  • '80s, 80s

Hyponyms

  • 1880s, 1980s

Translations

See also

  • octogenarian

Adjective

eighties (not comparable)

  1. From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
    Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.

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eighteenth

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?e??ti?n?/
  • Rhymes: -i?n?
  • Hyphenation: eigh?teenth

Adjective

eighteenth

  1. The ordinal form of the number eighteen.

Abbreviations

  • 18th, 18th, XVIIIth; (in royal, papal and other names; for centuries) XVIII

Translations

Noun

eighteenth (plural eighteenths)

  1. The person or thing in the eighteenth position.
  2. One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.
  3. (informal) A party to celebrate an eighteenth birthday.

Synonyms

  • 18th
  • XVIIIth

Translations

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