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Definition of Eighties

1. Noun. The decade from 1880 to 1889.

2. Noun. The decade from 1980 to 1989.

3. Noun. The time of life between 80 and 90.

Definition of Eighties

1. Noun. (plural of eighty) ¹

2. Noun. The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc. ¹

3. Noun. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eighties

1. eighty [n] - See also: eighty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighties

eightfold eightfold way eightfoldness eighth eighth cranial nerve eighth grade eighth grades eighth nerve eighth nerve tumour eighth note

eighth notes eighth rest eighth rests eighthly eighths eighties (current term) eightieth eightieths eightish eightlike

eightling eightlings eightness eightpence eightpences eightpenny eightpenny nail eightplex eightplexes eights

Literary usage of Eighties

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

1. Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (1912)
"Except for two events of first-class importance the “eighties” are dull and unimportant years. It is true that innumerable things happened, any of which, ..."

2. The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener (1899)
"POETRY SINCE THE eighties IN AMERICA JUDEO-GERMAN poetry has developed in two directions ... Many of the poets left Russia in the beginning of the eighties, ..."

3. Economic and Social History of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880-1915 by Warren Scott Boyce (1917)
"CHAPTER III AGRICULTURE IN THE eighties ' GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE CHOWAN in 1880 was (and continues to be) preeminently a farming ..."

4. History of Labour in the United States by John Rogers Commons, Don Divance Lescohier, Elizabeth Brandeis (1918)
"The court record of the labour unions during the eighties, 504. ... BY the end of the eighties the labour movement had attained such a degree of class ..."

5. Sixty Years with the Bible: A Record of Experience by William Newton Clarke (1909)
"... THE eighties AT the very beginning of the eighties a great change came to all my mental operations through a change in the scene of my work. ..."

6. From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith by Weedon Grossmith (1913)
"In this year of grace, 1912, we are supposed, as a nation, to have improved in our tastes since the eighties. Have we? To-day we can witness at our leading ..."

7. Paris and Her People Under the Third Republic by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1919)
"DURING the decade of the eighties death was very busy among eminent Frenchmen, many of whom were closely associated with one or another phase of Parisian ..."

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