eight
/eɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.02 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
Describing a group or set with eight elements.
noun
A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
noun
A race in which such craft participate.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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 child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent."
- "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 Australia on Dec. 21."
- "He works eight hours a day."
- "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."
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 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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: eighte, eahta, *ahtō, *ahtōu, *oḱtṓw
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /eɪt/
- British English: /eɪt/
Usage
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Phrases
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
aces and eights
big eight
crazy eight
crazy eights
Cuban eight
Eight Ash Green
eight-ball