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eighteen

/ey-teen/US // ˈeɪˈtin //UK // (ˈeɪˈtiːn) //

十八,十八岁,十八个,十八世纪

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, ten plus eight.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 18 or XVIII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 18 in number.

Examples

  • So many eighteen-year-old girls,” says Oliona, “breathing down my neck.

  • In November 1885, the sudden death of her eighteen year-old daughter, Annie, brought Mandelbaum back to New York City.

  • By 1953, the number of Americans owning their own homes climbed to twenty-five million, up from eighteen million in 1948.

  • Eighteen years old, and got hit with an IED his first month there.

  • The Tambora warming of the poles was connected to the sudden flurry in expeditions that you get in the late eighteen-teens.

  • He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.

  • He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.

  • At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

  • If the paper is about twelve by eighteen inches this will accommodate moderate examples of most of the fronds.

  • One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.