eighties

== English == === Alternative forms === (of the decade) Eighties, 'eighties === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -eɪtiz === Noun === eighties plural of eighty === Noun === eighties pl (plural only) The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc. 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172, He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89. ==== Synonyms ==== '80s, 80s ==== Hyponyms ==== 1880s, 1980s ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== octogenarian === Adjective === eighties (not comparable) From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).