8 (disambiguation)
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Being one more than seven

noun


(2)   The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
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English




Cardinal number


eight
  1. The cardinal number occurring after seven and before nine. Ordinal: eighth.
    He works eight hours a day.
  2. Describing a set or group with eight components.

Quotations

  • 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About
    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.


Noun



  1. Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
  2. The digit/figure 8.
  3. A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which a eight rowers each have two oars
  4. A race in which such craft participate
 
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