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English
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Etymology
From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
Pronunciation
Adjective
eighth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number eight.
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Noun
eighth (plural eighths)
- The person or thing in the eighth position.
- One of eight equal parts of a whole.
- (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 499:At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.
Synonyms
- (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
- (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)
- (⅛ oz.): ochava (historical Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms
- (One of eight equal parts): epogdoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1
+1⁄8)
Translations
person or thing in the eighth position
- Afrikaans: agtste (af)
- Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord)
- Basque: zortzigarren (eu)
- Dutch: achtste (nl)
- Estonian: kaheksas (et)
- Finnish: kahdeksas (fi)
- French: huitième (fr) m or f
- Old French: huictiesme
- Galician: oitava f, oitavo (gl) m
- German: Achte (de)
- Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)
- Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu)
- Interlingua: octavo m, octava f
- Italian: ottavo (it) m, ottava (it) f
- Latgalian: ostoits m, ostoita f
- Latin: octavus (la)
- Latvian: astotais (lv) m, astotā f
- Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) m, aštunta f
- Maori: tuawaru
- Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m, oitava (pt) f
- Romanian: cel al optulea m, cea a opta f
- Russian: восьмой (ru) (vosʹmoj), восьмая (ru) f (vosʹmaja), восьмое n (vosʹmoje)
- Swedish: (den) åttonde (sv) c, åtta (sv) c
- Turkish: sekizinci (tr)
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one of eight equal parts of a whole
slang: a quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce
Verb
eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)
- to divide by eight
2013, Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking, page 31:The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.
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