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noun a cardinal number, seven plus one.
a symbol for this number, as 8 or VIII.
a set of this many persons or things, as the crew of an eight-oared racing shell.
a playing card the face of which bears eight pips.
Informal . an automobile powered by an eight-cylinder engine. an eight-cylinder engine. adjective amounting to eight in number.
Origin of eight before 1000; Middle English eighte, Old English (e )ahta; cognate with Dutch acht, Old Saxon, Old High German ahto (German acht ), Old Norse ātta, Gothic ahtau, Latin octō, Greek oktṓ, Old Irish ocht, Welsh wyth, Breton eiz, Tocharian B okt, Lithuanian aštuonì, Albanian tetë, Armenian uth, Persian hasht, Sanskrit aṣṭáu; apparently an old dual in form, but not clear of what
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British Dictionary definitions for eight noun the cardinal number that is the sum of one and seven and the product of two and four See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 8, VIII, etc, representing this number
music the numeral 8 used as the lower figure in a time signature to indicate that the beat is measured in quavers
the amount or quantity that is one greater than seven
something representing, represented by, or consisting of eight units, such as a playing card with eight symbols on it
rowing a racing shell propelled by eight oarsmen the crew of such a shell Also called: eight o'clock eight hours after noon or midnight
have one over the eight slang to be drunk
See figure of eight
SEE MORE SEE LESS determiner amounting to eight (as pronoun ) I could only find eight
Other words from eight Related prefixes: octa-, octo- Word Origin for eight Old English eahta; related to Old High German ahto, Old Norse ātta, Old Irish ocht, Latin octō, Greek okto, Sanskrit astau
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Idioms and Phrases with eight see behind the eight ball.
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