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eights

eights is the plural of eight.

Meaning of eight

Noun

eight (plural eights)

  1. The digit/figure 8.
  2. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  3. A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
  4. (especially, plural) A race in which such craft participate.
  5. The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
  6. Eight o'clock.
    • About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror)

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Noun

eights pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A pair of eights.

Phrases with eights

Questions about eights

What does eights mean?
Eights means a pair of eights.
What is eights the plural of?
Eights is the plural of eight.
What part of speech is eights?
Eights is a noun.

Words near eights in the dictionary

  1. eightpenny nail
  2. eightpenny nails
  3. eightpetal
  4. eightplex
  5. eightplexes
  6. eights
  7. eights and aces
  8. eightscore
  9. eightsies
  10. eightsman
  11. eightsmen

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