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Definitions: Eighteen |
EighteenAdjective1. Being one more than seventeen. Noun1. The cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eighteen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: EighteenSynonyms: 18 (n), XVIII (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Eighteen is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9.
18 is the age limit for being allowed a driver's license and/or for purchasing tobacco in many parts of the world. It is also the voting age in the vast majority of countries around the world today. During the Vietnam War, Americans could be drafted at an age as low at 18, but were not allowed to vote in most states until they were 21. A movement spread to lower the voting age, and in 1971 the Twenty-sixth Amendment extended a guarantee of suffrage to anyone 18 years or older in all states. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in the U.K and many other nations around that time. 18 is also the age in most countries at which a person may appear in a pornographic video, if pornography is legal at all, or have sex with a person in a position of authority over them (a teacher, athletic coach or employer, for instance).
There are eighteen wheels on an 18-wheeler, or Mack truck.
There are eighteen holes in a game of golf.
See also: sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, integer, list of numbers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eighteen."
Crosswords: Eighteen |
| English words defined with "eighteen": 19 ♦ Asterolepis ♦ Jararaca ♦ Laelaps ♦ Mangostan ♦ nineteen ♦ Octodecimo ♦ Purana ♦ Quintilllion ♦ xix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eighteen": Campaign Wig, Chinese Gordon, Constantine Tolman, Counterforts, Crawley ♦ Ehud ♦ Granby ♦ Heroes scratched off Church-doors, Hugh of Lincoln ♦ Kajak ♦ Macedon is not Worthy of Thee, Marphisa, Misnomers ♦ Rising in the Air ♦ Sabbathians. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eighteen" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (eighteen). |
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Screenplays | Say what you want, but it's always the guy in my job that ends up doing eighteen months in Danbury Minimum Security Prison. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) I took all three this morning and now I've got eighteen hours to go until my next shot. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) She can't be more than eighteen. She hasn't had time to have a past. (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) To me, anyway, and the lives of these jokers here, and the eighteen men we lost tonight! (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman) When you're eighteen. (The Kid; writing credit: Audrey Wells) | |
Lyrics | He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"; performing artist: Joan Baez) Or eighteen karat gold ("Express Yourself"; performing artist: Madonna) Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen ("Draft Dodger Rag"; performing artist: Phil Ochs) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Eighteen Carat Virgin (1972) Eighteen and Anxious (1957) Nearly Eighteen (1943) Under Eighteen (1932) Eighteen Carat (1925) | |
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Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2023 | The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Option by a husband will cover his wife and option by parents will cover their children under eighteen years of age. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was about eighteen feet high. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Eighteen dollars. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He had a youth about eighteen years old standing by his side. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I got twelve bushels of beans, and eighteen bushels of potatoes, beside some peas and sweet corn. |
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Business | The onset of declining rents, seen in Budapest and Prague in about 1995, has just begun to affect Warsaw in the last eighteen months. (references) | |
Over the past eighteen months, however, there has also been major growth in non-food retailers, with service industries showing the greater prominence. (references) | ||
Carrefour became the first 100% foreign-owned discount store in Korea when this French company opened its first store in Joongdong, Kyonggi province, in 1996. Carrefour currently operates eighteen stores in Korea. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Brazil | Eighteen persons were accused in the crime. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | In the past eighteen months many services went on line in Bahrain. (references) |
Colombia | Colombia has eighteen sedimentary basins covering over 1,036,400 sq. kilometers. (references) | |
Political Economy | Luxembourg | Since 1919 when universal suffrage was first introduced, Luxembourg citizens over the age of eighteen are legally bound to vote in all elections. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eighteen" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 99.66% of the time. "Eighteen" is used about 2,970 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 99.66% | 2,960 | 3,157 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,970 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eighteen": attain the age of eighteen ♦ eighteen hundred. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "eighteen": eighteen-and-a-half-year-old, eighteen-carat, eighteen-century, eighteen-day, eighteen-fifties, eighteen-foot, eighteen-forties, eighteen-forty, eighteen-inch, eighteen-inch-high, eighteen-lot, eighteen-metre-high, eighteen-mile, eighteen-month, eighteen-month-old, eighteen-months, eighteen-nineties, eighteen-ninety, eighteen-ninety-eight, eighteen-person, eighteen-plus, eighteen-round, eighteen-seventies, eighteen-sixties, eighteen-sixty, eighteen-stone, eighteen-thirties, eighteen-thirty, eighteen-thousand-foot, eighteen-to, eighteen-twenties, eighteen-year, eighteen-year-old, eighteen-year-olds. | |
Ending with "eighteen": nineteen-eighteen. | |
Containing "eighteen": sixteen-to-eighteen-year-old. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eighteen | 245 |
eighteen vision | 145 |
eighteen lyrics vision | 47 |
eighteen wheeler | 27 |
eighteen plus | 22 |
eighteen street | 17 |
18 eighteen | 14 |
barely eighteen | 13 |
eighteen gang street | 13 |
eighteen straight whiskeys | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eighteen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | agtien. (various references) | |
Albanian | tetëmbëdhjetë. (various references) | |
Arabic | ثمانية عشر. (various references) | |
Asturian | decinueve. (various references) | |
Aymara | tuncaqimsaqallquni. (various references) | |
Basque | hemezortzi. (various references) | |
Bemba | ikumi na cinekonsekonse. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осемнадесет. (various references) | |
Catalan | divuit. (various references) | |
Cebuano | napulog walo. (various references) | |
Chamorro | dies i ocho. (various references) | |
Chinese | 十八 (18). (various references) | |
Cornish | étek. (various references) | |
Croatian | osamnaest. (various references) | |
Czech | osmnáct. (various references) | |
Danish | atten. (various references) | |
Dutch | achttien. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | chunca pusac. (various references) | |
Esperanto | dek ok. (various references) | |
Estonian | kaheksateist. (various references) | |
Faeroese | átjan. (various references) | |
Farsi | هیجده , هجده . (various references) | |
Finnish | kahdeksantoista. (various references) | |
French | dix-huit. (various references) | |
French Canadian | dix-huit. (various references) | |
Frisian | achttsjin, achttjin. (various references) | |
German | achtzehn. (various references) | |
Greek | δεκαοχτώ. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | dizuit. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמו " עשר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tizennyolc. (various references) | |
Icelandic | átján. (various references) | |
Indonesian | delapan belas. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | qulit arvinilik marruuklu. (various references) | |
Italian | diciotto (xviii). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 十八 (18). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じゅうはち (18). (various references) | |
Kongo | kumi ye nana. (various references) | |
Korean | 열여덟. (various references) | |
Macedonian | osumnaeset. (various references) | |
Manx | hoght jeig. (various references) | |
Maori | tekau maa waru. (various references) | |
Mohawk | sha'tekon-yawenre. (various references) | |
Norwegian | atten. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djesocho. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | eighteen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eighteenay.(various references) | |
Polish | osiemnaście. (various references) | |
Portuguese | dezoito (eighteen hundred). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | 18. (various references) | |
Provencal | dètz-e-uèch. (various references) | |
Romanian | optsprezece. (various references) | |
Romansch | deschdotg. (various references) | |
Romany | deshohtò. (various references) | |
Ruanda | cumi ni munani. (various references) | |
Russian | восемнадцать. (various references) | |
Samoan | sefuluvalu. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osamnaestica, osamnaest. (various references) | |
Sicilian | diciottu. (various references) | |
Slovene | osemnajst. (various references) | |
Spanish | dieciocho (eightieth). (various references) | |
Sranan | tina-ayti. (various references) | |
Swahili | kumi na -nane, kumi na nane. (various references) | |
Swazi | -lishûmi nesíphohlôngo. (various references) | |
Swedish | arton, aderton. (various references) | |
Tagalog | labingwalo, labingwaló, disiotso. (various references) | |
Thai | จำนวนสิบแป". (various references) | |
Turkish | onsekiz. (various references) | |
Ukranian | вісімнадцять. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | số mười tám, mười tám. (various references) | |
Welsh | deunaw. (various references) | |
Zulu | ishumi nesishiyagalombi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | duodeviginti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tauthn de qugatera abraam ousan hn edhsen o satanaV idou deka kai oktw eth ouk edei luqhnai apo tou desmou toutou th hmera tou sabbatou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hanc autem filiam Abrahae quam alligavit Satanas ecce decem et octo annis non oportuit solvi a vinculo isto die sabbati |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þas abrahames dohtor þe satanas geband nu eahtatyne gear. ne gebyrede hyre beon unbunden ofþissum bende on restedæge; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Bihofte it not this douytir of Abraham, whom Satanas hath boundun, lo! eiytetene yeeris, to be vnboundun of this boond in the dai of the sabat? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ought not this doughter of Abraham whom Sathan hath bounde loo .xviii. yeares be lowsed from this bonde on the saboth daye? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 16 |
| Bulgarian | А тая, като е Авраамова дъщеря, която Сатана е държал цели осемнадесет години, не трябваше ли да бъде развързана от тая връзка в съботен ден? |
| Cebuano | Ug kining babayhana, nga anak ni Abraham, nga gigapos ni Satanas sulod na sa napulog-walo ka tuig, dili ba kinahanglan nga pagabadbaran siya sa maong gapos sulod sa adlaw nga igpapahulay?" |
| Chinese | 況 " 這 女 人 本 是 亞 伯 拉 罕 的 後 " 、 被 '' 但 捆 綁 了 這 十 八 年 、 不 當 在 安 息 日 解 開 他 的 綁 麼 。 |
| Croatian | Nije li dakle i ovu kæer Abrahamovu, koju Sotona sveza evo osamnaest je veæ godina, trebalo odriješiti od tih spona u dan subotni?" |
| Danish | Men denne, som er en Abrahams Datter, hvem Satan har bundet, se, i atten År, burde hun ikke løses fra dette Bånd på Sabbatsdagen?" |
| Dutch | En deze, die een dochter Abrahams is, welke de satan, ziet, nu achttien jaren gebonden had, moest die niet losgemaakt worden van dezen band, op den dag des sabbats? |
| Finnish | Ja tätä naista, joka on Aabrahamin tytär ja jota saatana on pitänyt sidottuna, katso, jo kahdeksantoista vuotta, tätäkö ei olisi pitänyt päästää siitä siteestä sapatinpäivänä?" |
| French | Et cette femme, qui est une fille d`Abraham, et que Satan tenait liée depuis dix-huit ans, ne fallait-il pas la délivrer de cette chaîne le jour du sabbat? |
| German | Sollte aber nicht gelöst werden am Sabbat diese, die doch Abrahams Tochter ist, von diesem Bande, welche Satanas gebunden hatte nun wohl achtzehn Jahre? |
| Haitian Creole | Bon, fanm sa a, moun ras Abraram, ki gen dizwitan depi Satan mare l' anba yon maladi, mwen pa t' dwe delivre l' yon jou repo? |
| Hungarian | Hát ezt, az Ábrahám leányát, kit a Sátán megkötözött ímé tizennyolcz esztendeje, nem kellett-é feloldani e kötélbõl szombatnapon? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Nah, di sini sekarang ada seorang wanita keturunan Abraham, yang sudah delapan belas tahun lamanya terikat oleh Iblis. Apakah ia tidak boleh dilepaskan dari ikatannya itu pada hari Sabat?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Akan tetapi perempuan ini, seorang anak Ibrahim, yang diikat oleh setan, wah, sudah delapan belas tahun lamanya, tiadakah patut ia dilepaskan daripada pengikat ini pada hari Sabbat?" |
| Italian | E questa figlia di Abramo, che satana ha tenuto legata diciott'anni, non doveva essere sciolta da questo legame in giorno di sabato?». |
| Korean | 그 러 면 십 " 년 동 안 사 단 에 게 매 인 " 된 이 아 브 라 함 의 " 을 안 식 일 에 이 매 임 에 서 푸 " 것 이 합 당 치 아 니 하 냐 ?' |
| Latvian | Bet vai nevajadzçja sabatâ atraisît no ðîm saitçm ðo Âbrahama meitu, kuru sâtans bija saistîjis, lûk, jau astoòpadsmit gadu? |
| Manx Gaelic | As nagh lhisagh y ven shoh ta ny hinneen da Abraham, ee ta satan er chiangley, cur-my-ner ny hoght bleeaney jeig shoh, ve er ny eaysley veih yn vondiaght shoh er laa yn doonaght? |
| Maori | Kahore ranei tenei wahine, he tamahine nei na Aperahama, i herea nei e hatana i enei tau tekau ma waru, e tika kia wetekina i tona here i te ra hapati? |
| Modern Greek | αυτη δε, ουσα θυγατηρ του Αβρααμ, την οποιαν ο Σατανας εδεσεν, ιδου, δεκαοκτω ετη, δεν επρεπε να λυθη απο του δεσμου τουτου τη ημερα του σαββατου; |
| Norwegian | Men denne, en Abrahams datter, som Satan har bundet, tenk, i atten år, skulde ikke hun bli løst av dette bånd på sabbatsdagen? |
| Portuguese | E não devia ser solta desta prisão, no dia de sábado, esta que é filha de Abraão, a qual há dezoito anos Satanás tinha presa? |
| Rumanian | Dar femeia aceasta, care este o fiicq a lui Avraam, wi pe care Satana o yinea legatq de optsprezece ani, nu trebuia oare sq fie deslegatq de legqtura aceasta kn ziua Sabatului?`` |
| Russian | УЙА ЦЕ "ПЮШ бЧТББНПЧХ, ЛПФПТХА УЧСЪБМ УБФБОБ ЧПФ ХЦЕ ЧПУЕНОБ""БФШ МЕФ, ОЕ ОБ"МЕЦБМП МЙ ПУЧП'П"ЙФШ ПФ ХЪ УЙИ Ч "ЕОШ УХ''ПФОЙК? |
| Shuar | Tura ju nuwasha, atumi shuari Apraám shuarnumia akiiniaiti. Nii Tiasiúchu Uwí Satanás yajauch awajsamujai jinkiamuyayi. Nincha ayampratin tsawant ain yajauch awajsamunmaya Atíachminkiait" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Y a ésta, siendo hija de Abraham, a quien Satanás ha tenido atada por dieciocho años, ¿no debía ser librada de esta atadura en el día de sábado? |
| Swahili | Sasa, hapa yupo binti wa Abrahamu ambaye Shetani alimfanya kilema kwa muda wa miaka kumi na minane. Je, haikuwa vizuri kumfungulia vifungo vyake siku ya Sabato?" |
| Swedish | Och denna kvinna, en Abrahams dotter, som Satan har hållit bunden nu i aderton år, skulle då icke hon på sabbatsdagen få lösas från sin boja?" |
| Thai | "ูเถิ" ฝ่ายหญิงผู้นี้เป็นเชื้อสายของอับราฮัม ซึ่งซาตานไ"้ผูกมั"ไว้สิบแป"ปีแล้ว ไม่ควรหรือที่จะให้เขาหลุ"พ้นจากเครื่องจำจองอันนี้ในวันสะบาโต" |
| Ukrainian | Чи ж цю дочку Авраамову, яку сатана був зв'язав вісімнадцять ось років, не належить звільнити її суботнього дня від цих пут? |
| Uma | Hiaa' hi rehe'i, ria hadua tobine muli Abraham, hampulu' walu mpae-imi nahoo' Magau' Anudaa'. Ha uma-hana ma'ala tabahaka-i ngkai pohoo' -na hi Eo Sabat?" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eighteen": eighteens, eighteenth, eighteenths. (additional references) | |
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"Eighteen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eighte, eightee, eightees, eighter, eightteen, Eitzen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eighteen" (pronounced ātē"n or ā"tēn) |
| 3 | -t ē" n | canteen, fifteen, fourteen, gelatine, nineteen, preteen, seventeen, sixteen, teen, thirteen, umpteen. |
| 3 | -t ē n | dentine, lipoprotein, pristine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
-2 letters: ethene, teeing, theine. | |
-3 letters: eight, genet, genie, hinge, neigh, night, tenge, thegn, thein, thine, thing, tinge. | |
-4 letters: gene, gent, ghee, gien, hent, hint, nigh, nite, teen, thee, then, thin, tine, ting. | |
-5 letters: eng, eth, gee, gen, get, ghi, gie, gin, git, hen, het, hie, hin, hit, nee, net, nit, nth, tee, teg, ten, the, tie, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-h-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: eighteens. | |
+2 letters: eighteenth, heightened. | |
+3 letters: eighteenths, enlightened, retightened. | |
+4 letters: heterogenies, heterogonies, histogeneses, meetinghouse. | |
+5 letters: atherogenesis, benightedness, delightedness, enlightenment, etherealizing, featheredging, heterogeneity, homogeneities, lengthinesses, meetinghouses, overtightened, unenlightened, weightinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 69 67 68 74 65 65 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E i g h t e e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0069 0067 0068 0074 0065 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3975737486717180 |
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