/eɪt/, /eʈ/, /ɛ(j)ʈ/
OriginPIE word
*oḱtṓw
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 acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).
- A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
“Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another c”
“The statement did not specify the location of that trip, but provided further details of her romantic life, stating that Saroukos and her husband spent eight days together before she returned to Austr”
- Describing a group or set with eight elements.
“He works eight hours a day.”
- The digit/figure 8.
- Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
- A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
- especially, pluralA race in which such craft participate.
- The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
- Eight o'clock.
“About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]”
“Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.”
“Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo.”
Formsaught(alternative) · eights(plural)