eight
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- There are only eight of these rare animals left.
- eight of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Ten people were invited but only eight turned up.
- Can you lend me eight dollars?
- an eight-month contract
- Look at page eight.
- Eight and one is nine.
- Two eights is sixteen.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be an eight?
- The bulbs are planted in sixes or eights (= groups of six or eight).
- We moved to America when I was eight (= eight years old).
- Shall we meet at eight (= at eight o'clock), then?
- noun a team of eight people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat they rowTopics Sports: water sportsc2 see also figure of eight, piece of eight