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Eight

//eɪt// adj, noun, num

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of eighth. alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than seven wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The digit/figure 8.
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river) alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face wordnet
  4. 4
    Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  5. 5
    a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life wordnet
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  1. 6
    A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
  2. 7
    the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one wordnet
  3. 8
    A race in which such craft participate. especially, plural
  4. 9
    The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
  5. 10
    Eight o'clock.

    "About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]"

Numeral
  1. 1
    A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

    "Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent."

  2. 2
    Describing a group or set with eight elements.

    "He works eight hours a day."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *oḱtṓw From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).

Etymology 2

PIE word *oḱtṓw From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).

Etymology 3

PIE word *oḱtṓw From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).

Etymology 4

See ait.

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