eighty-three

[ ey-tee-three ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 3.
2. a symbol for this number, as 83 or LXXXIII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 83 in number.

Example Sentences

The total was 117, and it included his wife, daughters, sixteen freemen—overseers and other paid workmen—and eighty-three slaves.

From Literature

The man sitting across from me at an oilcloth-covered kitchen table was eighty-three.

From Literature

One hundred and eighty-three of our state's kids have been killed with guns during that time; 45 of them were under age 12.

From Salon

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”

From Literature

But not eighty-three dollars and sixty-two cents better.

From Literature