eight

About 62.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 8.
2. numeral A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
3. numeral Describing a group or set with eight elements.

   He works eight hours a day.

4. noun The digit/figure 8.
5. noun Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
6. noun A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
7. noun A race in which such craft participate.
8. noun The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.

Similar words

octet ogdoad octad octonary cardinal eighter from decatur eighter viii six eighth

Often followed by

years hours hundred or months days of to miles

Word family

8 eights