单词 | eighty |
释义 | eightyadj.n. 1. The cardinal numeral equal to eight tens, represented by the symbols 80 or lxxx. Also with omission of the noun and in combination with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as eighty-one, eighty-first, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eighty eightyc825 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > eighty eightyc825 fourscore1297 c825 Vesp. Psalter lxxxix. [xc.] 10 In mæhtum hundæhtatiges gera. c825 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) Introd. Gaius Iulius Romana Kasero mid hund ehtatigum scipum gesohte Brytene. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1810) 478 Endleue hundred ȝer of grace, & eiȝteti & thre. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxvii. 36 The aungil of the Lord smot in the tentus of Assiries an hundrid and fyue and eiȝteti thousend. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 137 Eyȝty, octoginta. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 349 Auchty thousand he wes and ma. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 367 Octante, eyghty, lxxx. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 95 Eightie odde yeares of sorrow haue I seene. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 187 Mr Fox fore-told the ruine and destruction of the Invincible (so called) Armado in the eighty eight. 1771 M. Raper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 533 When the Romans began to coin gold, it did not exceed the eighty-fourth part of their Pound. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 217 In the year one thousand four hundred and eighty-five. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 44 Aspasia, now over eighty. 2. quasi-n. a. The age of eighty years. b. the eighties: the years between eighty and ninety in a particular century. ΚΠ 1835 E. Elliott Poems III. 221 He stoop'd no more, like toothless eighty. 1883 J. R. Seeley Expansion of Eng. 260 Adam Smith, writing in the eighties. c. A half of a quarter section of land, comprising eighty acres of land. U.S. ΚΠ 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xlvi. 284 Happy he whose far reaching ‘eighties’ enclose a sugar-bush! 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 77 The whole surface of the plains is sere and brown save some ‘eighties’ or larger tracts that are fenced. 1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) xi. 204 Then I hurried..across the west eighty to the woods. 1936 M. H. Bradley Five-minute Girl v. 74 So his ax had set to work on the maples and hemlocks in his north eighty. Compounds eighty-gun adj. ΚΠ 1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 30 I have known some gentlemen captains of eighty gun ships, who..were not old enough to be lieutenants. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Rates The 80-gun ships..begin to grow out of repute. eighty-ton adj. ΚΠ 1874 Porcupine 18 Apr. 37/1 The construction of an 80-ton gun at Woolwich is stated to be decided upon. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 292/2 In the 80-ton gun powder cubes of 1½ in. edge are used. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter iii That was the first eighty-ton gun fired in war. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.c825 |
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