Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The ordinal number matching the number 80 in a series.
  • noun One of 80 equal parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Next after the seventy-ninth: an ordinal numeral.
  • noun The quotient of unity divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective The next in order after seventy-ninth.
  • adjective Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
  • noun The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective The ordinal form of the number eighty.
  • noun The person or thing in the eightieth position.
  • noun One of eighty equal parts of a whole.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective the ordinal number of eighty in counting order
  • noun position 80 in a countable series of things

Etymologies

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eighty +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Lady Bird Johnson celebrated her eightieth birthday in her red evening gown.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • What drives you—just months shy of your eightieth birthday—to continue to work so hard?

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • No wonder that I backed out one afternoon without raising the door, smashing it to pieces, like an idiot, or a man speeding into his eightieth year.

    Homestead 2009

  • What drives you—just months shy of your eightieth birthday—to continue to work so hard?

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • No wonder that I backed out one afternoon without raising the door, smashing it to pieces, like an idiot, or a man speeding into his eightieth year.

    Homestead 2009

  • I know Apache and he's no Apache., but he looked so white, you'd have taken him for eightieth generation Bostonian.

    Tales from the old Sonoran desert # 47 James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • Ertegun explained: The name Atlantic was probably about our eightieth choice, because every name we came up with . . . had already been taken. . .

    The Man Behind the Music 2011

  • He defined real intelligence as akin to being on the eightieth floor of a building while everyone else is on the ground trying to find their way with a map.

    Molly Baker: Steve Jobs: Oh Captain (Of Industry) My Captain! 2010

  • Her mother-in-law, Jessie Danz, was active in the Seattle Jewish Family and Child Services for many years, and Carolyn chaired the organization's eightieth anniversary celebration in 1972.

    Personal Information for Carolyn Blumenthal Danz 2010

  •            Of his own end, Grandpa had often said to me and Grace as though teasing us with a riddle, "I will spring into my eightieth year, but I will not spring out of it."

    The Legacy 2010

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