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eighteen
[ ey-teen ]
noun
- a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
- a symbol for this number, as 18 or XVIII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 18 in number.
eighteen
/ ˈeɪˈtiːn /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and eight and the product of two and nine See also number
- a numeral, 18, XVIII, etc, representing this number
- the amount or quantity that is eight more than ten
- something represented by, representing, or consisting of 18 units
- functioning as singular or plural a team of 18 players in Australian Rules football
determiner
- amounting to eighteen
eighteen weeks
- ( as pronoun )
eighteen of them knew
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of eighteen1
Example Sentences
So many eighteen-year-old girls,” says Oliona, “breathing down my neck.
In November 1885, the sudden death of her eighteen year-old daughter, Annie, brought Mandelbaum back to New York City.
By 1953, the number of Americans owning their own homes climbed to twenty-five million, up from eighteen million in 1948.
Eighteen years old, and got hit with an IED his first month there.
The Tambora warming of the poles was connected to the sudden flurry in expeditions that you get in the late eighteen-teens.
He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.
He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.
At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.
If the paper is about twelve by eighteen inches this will accommodate moderate examples of most of the fronds.
One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.
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