Eight

Quick meaning: Eight is a numeral meaning A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Describing a group or set with eight elements.
2. The digit/figure 8.
3. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
4. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
5. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
6. Eight o'clock.
7. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.

Example Sentences

He works eight hours a day.

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

Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo.

Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.

Word Forms

• eights

Synonyms for eight

Depending on context, synonyms include cardinal, octad, octonary, octet, ogdoad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include octet, ogdoad, octad, octonary, cardinal, six.

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