eighty
AY-tee/ˈeɪ.ti/
- 1The cardinal number that follows seventy-nine and precedes eighty-one, written 80 in Arabic numerals and LXXX in Roman numerals.
The stadium held just over eighty thousand fans that night.
She counted eighty stamps tucked inside the old album.
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English eiȝti, from Old English hundeahtatiġ and Proto-Germanic *ahtōutēhundą, essentially "eight" plus the ending "-ty." It is related to German achtzig, Dutch tachtig, and Swedish åttio.