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Definitions of eighth:

part of speech: adjective

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part of speech: noun

The ordinal of eight; one of eight equal parts into which anything may be divided; in music, a note of one- eighth the value of a whole note.

part of speech: noun

an eighth part

part of speech: adjective

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part of speech: noun

A musical interval of five tones and two semitones.

part of speech: adjective

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Usage examples for eighth:

• When it was the eighth day, the Wazirs all assembled and had speech together and said, " How shall we do with this youth, who overcometh us with his much talk? "Supplemental Nights, Volume 1", Richard F. Burton

• He stood at the edge of a little plain, with the valley an eighth of a mile below him, and the break over which he had come that afternoon an eighth of a mile above him. "The Grizzly King", James Oliver Curwood

• A lady, if she issue invitations for a dinner of ten or twenty, should do so a fortnight in advance, and should have her cards engraved thus: Mr. and Mrs. James Norman request the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown's company at dinner on Thursday, February eighth at seven o'clock. "Manners and Social Usages", Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood