plural eighties
1
: a number that is equal to eight times 10 see Table of Numbers
2
eighties plural
: the numbers 80 to 89
specifically
: the years 80 to 89 in a lifetime or century
Examples of eighty in a Sentence
The temperature rose to the high eighties.
She is in her mid-eighties.
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Ellis spent time at PS1 at the turn of the eighties and worked as a guard at MoMA, as Angus did in those same years.
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Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Still, being a child of California in the eighties and nineties offered a front-row seat to the rise of a retail juggernaut.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The boxy Rover parked outside Lowestoft station is particularly evocative for a British child of the eighties and nineties.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Part of the environmental movement in the seventies and eighties was that these water bodies, Santa Monica Bay was too polluted to swim in.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
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Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Still, being a child of California in the eighties and nineties offered a front-row seat to the rise of a retail juggernaut.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The boxy Rover parked outside Lowestoft station is particularly evocative for a British child of the eighties and nineties.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Part of the environmental movement in the seventies and eighties was that these water bodies, Santa Monica Bay was too polluted to swim in.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Eighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eighty. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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