Definitions for eight
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octetnoun

   the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

2. Ashcan School, Eightnoun

   a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life

3. eight-spot, eightadjective

   one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

4. eight, 8, viiiadjective

   being one more than seven

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eightnoun

   The digit/figure 8.

2. eightnoun

   Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

3. eightnoun

   A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which a eight rowers each have two oars

4. eightnoun

   A race in which such craft participate

5. Etymology: From eight, aught, eahte, ahte, from eahta, from ahtōu, from oḱtṓw. Cognate with aucht, acht, acht, acht, acht, åtta, átta, octo, ὀκτώ, ocht.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. EIGHTadjective

   Twice four. A word of number.

   Etymology: eahta, Saxon; ahta, Gothick; acht, Scottish.

   This island contains eight score and eight miles in circuit. George Sandys, Journey.

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1. eight

   Eight is a numerical value equivalent to the sum of four and four. It comes after seven and before nine in the counting system, and is considered an even number. The numeral symbol for eight is "8". In Roman numerals, it is represented as VIII.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. Eightnoun

   an island in a river; an ait

2. Eightadjective

   seven and one; as, eight years

3. Eightnoun

   the number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects

4. Eightnoun

   a symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii

5. Etymology: [See Ait.]

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1. Eight

   Eight was released in 2000 and is the eighth studio album by British rock band, New Model Army. Following the departure of Robert Heaton, Michael Dean and Dean White were recruited into the band, who also co-produced Eight with Justin Sullivan.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eight

   āt, n. the cardinal number one above seven: the figure (8 or viii.) denoting eight.—adj. noting the number eight.—adjs. and ns. Eight′een, eight and ten, twice nine; Eight′eenmō, same as Octodecimo (q.v.); Eight′eenth, the ordinal number corresponding to eighteen.—n. Eight′foil (her.), an eight-leaved grass.—adjs. Eight′fold, eight times any quantity; Eighth, the ordinal number corresponding to eight.—n. an eighth part.—adv. Eighth′ly, in the eighth place.—adjs. and ns. Eight′ieth, the ordinal number corresponding to eighty; Eight′y, eight times ten, fourscore.—An eight, a crew of a rowing-boat, consisting of eight oarsmen; An eight-oar, or simply Eight, the boat itself; An eight days, a week; Figure of eight, a figure shaped like an 8 made in skating; Piece of eight, a Spanish coin; The eights, annual bumping boat-races which take place in the summer term in Oxford and Cambridge between the various colleges. [A.S. eahta; Ger. acht, L. octo, Gr. oktō.]

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'eight' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #847

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'eight' in Written Corpus Frequency: #193

How to pronounce eight?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say eight in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of eight in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of eight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of eight in a Sentence

1. Will Barnard:

   Angling is an opportunity for mindfulness without being too idle, you can see how vast it is ... It can affect you on many levels, you know, it can give you a bit of relief that there are things much bigger than what you've been stuck with for the last eight to 10 weeks with those four walls.

2. Sebastian Coe:

   It can't keep going back to the same eight or nine places that we've always sort of focused on in the past, we need to make sure, where we possibly can, we take cost out. Just make it an easier business proposition for a city to want to take us on board.

3. Erika Pinheiro:

   People were just getting really desperate because The US government had been eight or nine months since they'd seen their children. ... A lot of them didn't want to wait anymore.

4. Bob Bejan:

   I think we've moved about two years of evolution in this medium in about eight weeks, we would have never in the event space accelerated [ at this rate ]... if things would have just been going on normally.

5. Michael Bjorn:

   Half of all the smartphone users we talked to believe that internal sensors will give updates on their health and well-being in only three years, it’s a bit like wearables, but internal sensors in our bodies will be the new wearables. It doesn’t even stop there, he added. When you start asking questions about this, you realize eight out of 10 smartphone owners would like to augment things like sensory perception and cognitive ability with technology. So you have interest in things like vision, memory and hearing and, to me, that is quite surprising.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=eight
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eight
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=eight
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eight
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=eight
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=eight