Definition of Eighteen

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one.

Exact synonyms: 18, Xviii
Generic synonyms: Large Integer

2. Adjective. Being one more than seventeen.
Exact synonyms: 18, Xviii
Similar to: Cardinal

Definition of Eighteen

1. a. Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

2. n. The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.

Definition of Eighteen

1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18. ¹

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Definition of Eighteen

1. a number [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighteen

eight-pack
eight-packs
eight-penny nail
eight-spot
eight-thousander
eight-thousanders
eight ball
eight hundred
eight o'clock
eight pack
eight packs
eight penny nail
eight thousand
eightball
eighteen (current term)
eighteen-wheeler
eighteen-wheelers
eighteen hundred
eighteen hundreds
eighteenfold
eighteenish
eighteenmo
eighteenmos
eighteenpence
eighteenpences
eighteenpenny
eighteens
eighteenth
eighteenthly

Literary usage of Eighteen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"And the defendant further says that the aforesaid Emanuel Sixto departed this life 7T]en the twenty-seventh day of 'November, eighteen hundred and ..."

2. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"BOOK remaining eighteen Latin colonies would assume." If - .' - they followed the example of the twelve, it was clear that Fidelity of no further reliance ..."

3. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... namely: An act to make provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of government,approved May thirteen,eighteen hundred; ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"This is his great work on elimination. Paris, eighteen-twelve. ... —of Original Tracts.' Quarto. iv +34 pages. London, eighteen-twenty. ..."

5. Army and Navy Pension Laws, and Bounty Land Laws of the United States by Ferdinand Moulton (1852)
"Nero Hawley, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and eight. ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(11) He was about eighteen years of age when his father was promoted to the rank of Cesar; but that fortunate event was attended with his mother's divorce ..."

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