EIGHTEEN Definition & Meaning

eighteen

[ ey-teen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
a symbol for this number, as 18 or XVIII.
a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

amounting to 18 in number.

eighteen

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noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and eight and the product of two and nine See also number
a numeral, 18, XVIII, etc, representing this number
the amount or quantity that is eight more than ten
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 18 units
functioning as singular or plural a team of 18 players in Australian Rules football

determiner

1. amounting to eighteen
  eighteen weeks
2. ( as pronoun )
  eighteen of them knew

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of eighteen¹

before 1000; Middle English ehtetene, Old English �𲹳�ٲ��ŧ�Ա�; cognate with Old Norse ��ٳ��, German achtzehn. See eight, -teen

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of eighteen¹

Old English �𲹳�ٲ��ŧ�Ա�; related to Old Norse attjan, Old High German ahtozehan

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Over the past eighteen months or so he grew out his hair; he replaced his hoodies with boxy tees; he got really into M.M.A. and wakeboarding.

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He travelled eighteen miles but only after ejecting every loose object from the balloon to enable it to launch.

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But it will be a long time before any of this is resolved - it has already taken eighteen months to get to this point, and no court date has been set.

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“If it’s a fictional place, then why did you insist on me being sentenced until I was eighteen?”

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“The goal wasn’t to win. We were trying to have the longest game of freeze tag in history, remember? And that only lasted eighteen minutes.”

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