eighteen
eighteen Lexical Profile
eighteen Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Amounting to one more than seventeen; totaling two less than twenty.
"The golf course features eighteen challenging holes surrounded by coastal dunes."
Being eighteen years old.
"Once she was eighteen, she registered to vote in her first national election."
• noun
The cardinal number equivalent to the sum of ten and eight; one more than seventeen (represented in Arabic numerals as 18 and in Roman numerals as XVIII).
"Eighteen is an even composite number divisible by one, two, three, six, nine, and itself."
The age of eighteen years, widely recognized in many jurisdictions as the legal age of majority.
"At eighteen, young adults gain the legal right to sign contracts independently."
• pronoun
Eighteen people or things previously mentioned or easily identified from context.
"Twenty applicants were interviewed for the fellowship, and eighteen were accepted into the program."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English eahtatīene, a compound of eahta ('eight') and -tīene ('-teen', meaning 'ten more than'), derived from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun.
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