eight /eɪt/ BrE AmE number , noun
[ Language: Old English ; Origin: eahta ]
1 . the number 8:
It’s only eight days till Christmas.
They woke at eight (=eight o'clock) .
My parents died when I was eight (=eight years old) .
2 . [countable] a team of eight people who row a racing boat, or the boat that they row