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# eighty

«eighty» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 80, eight tens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (eighty, 80)

### meaning for a pupil

Eighty is the number 80, eight tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a number of things counted; 80 = 8 × 10 = 4 × 20; percent (80 percent is 80 out of 100); everyday life: eighty pages, eighty miles, Grandma turned eighty

### examples

- The book has eighty pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x1)
- Eighty people came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x2)
- He drove eighty miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x3)
- Eighty is ten times eight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x4)
- My great-grandmother is eighty years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x5)
- Eighty minus twenty is sixty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x6)
- She got eighty percent on the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x7)
- For the last eighty years I have dug up the ground here without discovering anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/#x8)

### note

A number written as a word: 80. Trap: do not mix up eighty (80) and eighteen (18); the stress is on the start: EIGH-ty. No hyphen alone; «eighty-one» has a hyphen.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eighty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eighty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.