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eighties en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
These publications can, however, be linked to a very eighties trend initiated among African American women writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker whose most distinguished novels deal with previously untold stories set deep in America's imperialist, slave-owning past.
1995, Anthony Ilona, “Crossing the River: A chronicle of the black Diaspora”, in Wasafiri, volume 11, number 22, →DOI, pages 3–9:Next to her, a woman with puffy sleeves, bright bubblegum makeup, and big eighties hair spoke melodiously into a microphone.
2020, Chana Porter, The Seep, New York, NY: Soho Press, →ISBN, page 169:Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.
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eighties en · NOUN
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(plural, plural-only) The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
Only kids born in the eighties remember this song!
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.
Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.
1914, Amherst College, Amherst graduates' quarterly, volume 4, page 6:
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(form-of, plural) plural of eighty
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(plural, plural-only) The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
Only folks in their eighties remember this song!
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(plural, plural-only, qualifier:rates) The range between 80 and 89.
No wonder I'm sweating, it's in the eighties!
Forms
Deriveds
mideighties
Hyponyms
1980s · 1880s
Relateds
1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s · aughts · zeros · zeroes · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s · noughties · 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s · Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties · tens · 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s · 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties · 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s · '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s · octogenarian · oughts · oneties · 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
Synonyms
80s · '80s
Translations (52)
tl dekada otsenta (the decade of the 1980s) · cmn 八十年代 (the decade of the 1980s) · ru 80-ые (the decade of the 1980s) · ca anys 80 (the decade of the 1980s) · fi 1980-luku (the decade of the 1980s) · cmn 80年代 (the decade of the 1980s) · cy pedwarugeiniau (the decade of the 1980s) · ca dècada del 1980 (the decade of the 1980s) · sh osamdesete (the decade of the 1980s) · ka 1980-იანები (the decade of the 1980s) · ja 八十年代 (the decade of the 1980s) · de Achtzigerjahre (the decade of the 1980s) · it anni ottanta (the decade of the 1980s) · pt anos 80 (the decade of the 1980s) · ko 80년대 (the decade of the 1980s) · pl lata 80. (the decade of the 1980s) · ja 80年代 (the decade of the 1980s) · fr années 80 (the decade of the 1980s) · fr années quatre-vingt (the decade of the 1980s) · ca dècada de 1980 (the decade of the 1980s) · tr seksenler (the decade of the 1980s) · sh осамдесете (the decade of the 1980s) · cy wythdegau (the decade of the 1980s) · ka ოთხმოციანები (the decade of the 1980s) · pl lata osiemdziesiąte (the decade of the 1980s) · sh 80-е (the decade of the 1980s) · hu nyolcvanas évek (the decade of the 1980s) · sv åttiotalet (the decade of the 1980s) · ru 1980-ые го́ды (the decade of the 1980s) · ka 80-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1980s) · id tahun delapan puluhan (the decade of the 1980s) · de Achtziger (the decade of the 1980s) · sh 80-e (the decade of the 1980s) · fi kahdeksankymmentäluku (the decade of the 1980s) · ca anys vuitanta (the decade of the 1980s) · ka ათას ცხრაას ოთხმოციანი წლები (the decade of the 1980s) · fi 80-luku (the decade of the 1980s) · sv 1980-talet (the decade of the 1980s) · de achtziger Jahre (the decade of the 1980s) · sv 80-talet (the decade of the 1980s) · nl jaren 1980 (the decade of the 1980s) · ko 팔십년대 (the decade of the 1980s) · nl jaren tachtig (the decade of the 1980s) · de 1980er (the decade of the 1980s) · ka 80-იანები (the decade of the 1980s) · ka 1980-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1980s) · tr 1980'ler (the decade of the 1980s) · de neunzehnhundertachtziger Jahre (the decade of the 1980s) · ka ოთხმოციანი წლები (the decade of the 1980s) · es años 80 (the decade of the 1980s) · sv åttiotal (the decade of the 1980s) · nl jaren 80 (the decade of the 1980s)