eight

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

   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.

2. 2
   num

   Describing a group or set with eight elements.

   He works eight hours a day.

3. 3
   noun

   Eight o'clock.

   About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]

4. 4
   adj

   being one more than seven

5. 5
   noun

   one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

6. 6
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

7. 7
   noun

   The digit/figure 8.

8. 8
   noun

   Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

Etymology

PIE word *oḱtṓw From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).