transcription, транскрипция: [ eɪti ]
( eighties)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Eighty is the number 80.
Eighty horses trotted up.
NUM
2.
When you talk about the eighties , you are referring to numbers between 80 and 89. For example, if you are in your eighties , you are aged between 80 and 89. If the temperature is in the eighties , the temperature is between 80 and 89 degrees.
He was in his late eighties and had become the country’s most respected elder statesman.
N-PLURAL
3.
The eighties is the decade between 1980 and 1989.
He ran a property development business in the eighties.
N-PLURAL : the N