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eighth (iou)



eighth adjective & noun (ordinal numeral).
[Old English e(a)htoTa = Old Frisian achte, Old High German ahtodo (German achte), from Germanic, from base of EIGHT, -TH2.]
A. adjective. Next in order after the seventh, that is number eight in a series, (represented by 8th). OE.
eighth note Music (N. Amer.) a quaver. eighth part arch. = sense B.3 below. eighth wonder of the world: see WONDER noun.
S. Kunitz Doomsday is the eighth day of the week.
b. noun.
The eighth person or thing of a category, series, etc., identified contextually, as day of the month, (following a proper name) person, esp. monarch or pope, of the specified name, etc. OE.
Joyce An animated altercation..as to whether the eighth or the ninth of March was the correct date of the birth of Ireland's patron saint. R. Bolt Our Sovereign Lord, Harry,..The Eighth of that name.
Music. An octave; a note an octave above another given note. LME-E18.
Each of eight equal parts into which something is or may be divided, a fraction which when multiplied by eight gives one, (= eighth part above). M16.
Economist Five-eighths of our income is going to be spent for us by the state.
Comb.: Forming compound ordinal numerals with multiples of ten, as forty-eighth (48th), five-thousand-and-eighth (5008th), etc.
eighthly adverb in the eighth place L16.