Eighties
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eighties is a noun meaning plural of eighty.
Meaning
plural of eighty.
More Meanings
- The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.
- From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
Example Sentences
No wonder I'm sweating, it's in the eighties!
Only folks in their eighties remember this song!
Only kids born in the eighties remember this song!
Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include onwards, seventies, nineties, twenties, fifties, zeros.
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