eighty-three

American  

[ey-tee-three] / ˈeɪ tiˈθri /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 83 in number.

Example Sentences

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

But at the weigh-in, Ruiz was measured at two hundred and eighty-three pounds—fifteen more than he weighed for the first match.

From The New Yorker

The eighty-three photographs in the book were culled from more than twenty-seven thousand that Frank took in Nebraska, Montana, Connecticut, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, California, and various points in between.

From The New Yorker

Based on satellite data, space-agency officials estimate that the number of forest fires is eighty-three per cent larger than last year.

From The New Yorker

“Of the hundred patients with leukemia who were transplanted in those early years, eighty-three died within the first several months,” Fred Appelbaum, a former student of Thomas’s, told me.

From The New Yorker