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eighth English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word eighth once they have reached the level A2 – Elementary. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning eighth meaning

What does eighth mean?

Definitions in simple English

eighth Adjective

— The eighth thing is the one that is number eight (8) in order. James Irwin was the eighth person to walk on the moon.

eighth Noun

— A eighth of something is one of eight equal parts of that thing. Half of one quarter is an eighth.

eighth

— adjective coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position

— noun position eight in a countable series of things

— noun one part in eight equal parts

Synonyms eighth synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as eighth?

eighth English » English

one-eighth

eighth part

eight

eighth note

8th

second

quaver

octave

eighthly

eight times

Topics eighth topics

What do people use eighth to talk about?

States Quantity Number

Ordinal numbers

• What are the ordinal numbers?
  first second third fourth fifth sixth seven eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth thirteenth hundredth thousandth

States Quantity Number

Fraction

• What words refer to a particular fraction of something?
  half one half third one third two thirds quarter fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth

Examples eighth examples

How do I use eighth in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Neptune is the eighth planet of the solar system.

It's on the eighth floor.

My home is on the eighth floor.

His office is on the eighth floor.

School begins on the eighth of April.

Finally, on January eighth, the British attacked.

I'm on the eighth floor.

I'm an eighth grader.

I'm in the eighth grade.

Yesterday was Sunday, the eighth of October.

She was in the eighth grade.

First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth. penultimate, last.

The eighth month of the year is July, isn't it?

I'm an eighth-grade science teacher in Boston.

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun.

They're on the eighth floor.

Calvin put the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans as the basis of his theory of predestination.

Movie subtitles

You know, I'm on the eighth floor.

The Eighth Wonder of the World.

This is the only eighth anniversary we're ever gonna have.

Eighth floor.

I think he was three years in the eighth grade.

A great hulking oaf who never even reached the eighth grade.

Meta must be the eighth.

And so Ethelred, Eighth Duke of Chalfont, duly came to his place in the family vault.

My late husband, Henry, and his late Uncle Ethelred, the Eighth Duke both unfortunately unable to testify today.

Well, I had Bart and these other boys in the eighth grade.

That's the eighth fellowship I've won. And you know something? I'm getting pretty homesick.

One-eighth above the surface, seven-eighths below.

You're giving me only that one-eighth.

Seven and one eighth, please.

But based on items in the files of the British Film Institute Rains was eighth billed and played a drunken loafer who, while applying for a job, gives some revealing and dramatic information about the leading character.

Aye, sir. lt's on Fifth and Eighth.

Eighth coming up.

That's the worst schlock house on Eighth Avenue.

You're gonna see a demonstration of the eighth wonder of the world.

The eighth victim of the poet killer.

That's the eighth fellowship I've won.

She'll still be running when they start the eighth.

Not quite, I'm an eighth Cherokee and the rest Welsh and English.

She got it on her eighth birthday.

And the eighth is.

Mrs. William Rice, age 55, scrub lady, while scrubbing the eighth floor, was shot in the left leg by one of Sheriff Hartwell's deputies.

That's the eighth glass!

What's good enough for the old Eighth Ward is good enough for anywhere, huh?

I don't think I'm any Napoleon but I've come a long way since the old Eighth.

That makes the eighth refusal in four days.

Yes. Well, I had Bart and these other boys in the eighth grade.

She was a waitress at Sylvia's over on 17th near Eighth Avenue.

Look, you go around there on Eighth Avenue. on the west side next to the corner, and it's a bar and grill.

Eighth Avenue, Jacob's Beach.

News and current affairs

In 2014, China's currency ranked seventh in global central-bank reserves, eighth in international bond issuance, and 11th in global currency trading.

Now in its eighth year, the almost obscene economic growth in the United States could be used to illustrate the inverse proposition.

Roughly half as many learn French, a quarter German and an eighth Spanish, and these numbers are falling, despite the Commission's efforts, because people tend to choose the foreign language that they believe is spoken and studied the most by others.

Eighth, some emerging-market economies with weaker economic fundamentals may not be able to avoid a severe financial crisis, despite massive IMF support.

By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth decade.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of popular investment books, bases his books' titles and themes on a comparison of his own highly-educated father with his friend's father, an eighth-grade dropout.

North Korea proved more successful, becoming the eighth country to detonate a nuclear weapon. At least two other NPT parties - Libya and Syria - engaged in significant nuclear subterfuge but failed.

This could make way for Musharraf's dictatorial rule to continue into its eighth year - and perhaps well beyond.

As the UN enters its eighth decade, it continues to inspire humanity.

Eighth, US involvement in Syria will breathe new life into efforts to press for a wider war between the US and Iran.

In the United States, one-eighth of all black males between the ages of 25 and 34 are in jail, and three out of five black American households with children are headed by a single mother.

Estimates of its newfound oil reserves place it in eighth place among oil-producing nations, ahead of Nigeria as well as Brazil's rival for influence in Latin America,Venezuela.

The dispute over Kashmir had occupied the minds of military planners throughout Pakistan's history, and war had been the raison d'etre for maintaining the world's eighth-largest standing army.

Eighth, emerging-market economies have more policy tools left than advanced economies do, and they should ease monetary and fiscal policy.

Similarly, according to the prestigious Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), in 2003 Chile's eighth graders ranked 39th out of 44 countries in mathematics; in science they did only slightly better, ranking 37th.

With so much political friction in Iran and Iraq, it is easy to overlook the growing unrest in Nigeria, the world's eighth-largest oil exporter.

And China, where income per person is one-eighth the level of the US (adjusted for purchasing power parity), is simply too poor to become the new hegemony.

Eighth, an extended period of negative real interest rates implies a redistribution of income and wealth from creditors and savers toward debtors and borrowers.

On the eighth floor, Jannie Burgess, a 79-year-old woman with advanced cancer, was on a morphine drip and close to death.

Yet California's technological and entrepreneurial might - standing alone, the state would be the world's eighth largest economy - coexists with a dysfunctional political system that has brought it to the edge of fiscal bankruptcy.

Eighth, increase support for NGOs with successful records in creating entrepreneurs in rural development, in carpet weaving, jewelry design, or any other activity that Afghans want to develop.