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A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. quotations examples
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.
2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
Describing a group or set with eight elements. examples
plural eights
The digit/figure 8. examples
(playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. examples
(nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. examples
(rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate. examples
(rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat. examples
Eight o'clock. quotations examples
About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], book IV (Terror)
Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.
1905, Guy Newell Boothby, “The Treasure of Sacramento Nick”, in A Crime of the Under-Seas, London: Ward Lock & Co Limited
Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo.
1997 February 1 , John Dunning, Deadline, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., page 263
not comparable
Obsolete spelling of eighth examples
Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river) examples