English Explanatory Dictionary

eighties

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of eighty
noun
  1. The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
  2. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
  3. The range between 80 and 89.
adj
  1. From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eighties.wav

Word forms

eighties 'eighties

Synonyms

'80s 80s

Related words

octogenarian 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's zeros zeroes aughts noughties oughts · oneties tens teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

Derived words

mideighties
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