eighth
eighth Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Constituting number eight in a sequence; coming directly after the seventh in position, order, or rank.
"Their apartment is located on the eighth floor of the residential tower."
Constituting one of eight equal parts into which a whole is divided.
"The carpenter shaved off an eighth inch of wood so the door would close smoothly."
• noun
One of eight equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
"The recipe calls for an eighth of a teaspoon of freshly ground nutmeg."
The person, item, or day occupying the position number eight in a sequence, or the eighth day of a month.
"The university's fall semester officially begins on the eighth of September."
In music, an interval spanning eight diatonic degrees, or the eighth tone of a scale; an octave.
"The soprano effortlessly reached the upper eighth at the climax of the aria."
• adverb
In the eighth place, rank, or position in a sequence or competition.
"The marathon runner finished eighth out of more than two hundred competitors."
Word Nuance & Usage
Often misspelled as 'eigth'; it retains the 'h' from 'eight' before adding the ordinal suffix, with a single 't' shared between the root and the suffix.
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English eighth, from Old English eahtoþa, derived from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô, the ordinal form of 'eight'.