Eighteen
[eɪ'tiːn;'eɪtiːn] or [,e'tin]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one.
(adj.) being one more than seventeen .
Checker: Paulette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It cost eighteen-pence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She is not eighteen; but if she is in the same mind another year, she is to be my wife. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This boyish notion won no converts, and at the age of eighteen he went on a lecture tour on chemistry, under the dignified title of Dr. Coult. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Else wherefore live we in a Christian land, eighteen hundred and odd years after our Master? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his native language. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Joaqu韓, who was eighteen years old, had a steel helmet that he dug with and he passed dirt in it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Treating Perker's offer of eighteen bob a week, and a rise if he behaved himself, like dirt,' replied Lowten. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Eighteen years! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The son, at the age of eighteen, was drowned at Oxford. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I should judge that he wore about eighteens. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Vilma