eighteen

[US]/eɪ'tiːn/
[UK]/ˌe'tin/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the number 18, a group of 18
adj. having a quantity of 18, relating to the number 18
num. the number 18

Phrases & Collocations

eighteen years old

eighteen siblings

eighteen books

eighteen students

Example Sentences

she wrote eighteen novels.

a girl of eighteen is highly impressionable.

sixteen of our eighteen patients.

they blew £100,000 in just eighteen months.

eighteen of the guests were gathered.

eighteen inches of thread.

an increase from sixteen to eighteen clubs.

an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn native.

sonar says that we're in eighteen fathoms .

a man could buy a lot with eighteen million dollars.

a cut which necessitated eighteen stitches.

spread out the payments on the loan over eighteen months

Priscilla was only eighteen when she met the grandee.

Six yards is commensurate with eighteen feet.

Eighteen months later Black was sprung from prison.

One good argument weighs down eighteen bad ones.

out of sixty batches checked, eighteen were incorrect.

eighteen schools were founded, eleven of them in London.

at eighteen she was working for her dad, repping on the road.

It is quite unusual for a freshman to be younger than eighteen or older than nineteen.

Real-world Examples

She is very pretty, and she is only just eighteen.

Source: Not to be taken lightly.

She is excessively pretty, and she is only just eighteen.

Source: Not to be taken lightly.

" Applicants must be over eighteen." And he would be eighteen tomorrow!

Source: American Elementary School English 6

The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 1

Tell me again. - Eighteen thousand American dollars.

Source: Gourmet food, prayer, and love

Eighteen other countries have also reported cases.

Source: CRI Online May 2020 Collection

Ser Cleos gaped. " But... there are eighteen" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

Eighteen so far... both Light and Dark.

Source: Lost Girl Season 3

It said eighteen Saudi nationals had been arrested.

Source: BBC Listening Collection October 2018

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