Other forms: eighties
Eighty is eight times ten. Eighty pounds, eighty per cent, eighty years old.
The French say four twenties for it, which preserves an older way of counting in scores. Eighty is a life expectancy in much of the rich world now, which it was not a century ago.
1nouneightyEight times ten.
“Eighty people applied for two places.”
eighty is a number.
Old English hundeahtatig, from eight plus a form meaning ten.
Proto-Germanic
*ahtōutēhundą — eighty
Old English
hundeahtatiġ
Middle English
eightety
English, today
eighty
Middle English eightety, eiȝti, eiȝtety, from Old English hundeahtatiġ, from Proto-Germanic ahtōutēhundą (“eighty”), equivalent to eight + -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), stq tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA