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eight

Pronunciation: /eɪt/

The English word “eight” has 8 meanings listed here.

numeral

  1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
  2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.

noun

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

Etymology

PIE word *oḱtṓw Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Old English eahta Middle English eighte English eight From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch…

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