eight

/eɪt/ · noun

Meaning

The digit/figure 8.
Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
(especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
Describing a group or set with eight elements.
The ordinal form of the number eight.
An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

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