eighty-seven

Thân thiện

The library has eighty-seven books on the top shelf.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Being seven more than eighty: The cardinal number that is equal to 80 plus 7, represented numerically as 87.

Usage

• Used to describe a quantity, amount, or position in a sequence.
• Functions as a determiner before a noun or as a predicate adjective.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • There are eighty-seven students enrolled in the course.
  • The temperature reached eighty-seven degrees yesterday.
  • She scored eighty-seven points in the final game.
  • "How many pages are left?" – "Eighty-seven."

Advanced Usage

• As a nominal (used as a noun): The number itself can be referred to as "eighty-seven."
  • Eighty-seven is a prime number.
• In compound adjectives: Can be part of a hyphenated adjective describing a unit.
  • An eighty-seven-page document.
  • An eighty-seven-year-old veteran.

Variants and Related Words

• 87: The numeric form.
• LXXXVII: The Roman numeral form.
• Fourscore and seven: An archaic or literary form, famously used in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ("four score and seven years ago").

Synonyms

• 87 (numeral)
• Fourscore and seven (archaic)

Related Phrases

• Eighty-sixed: (Slang, unrelated in meaning) A slang term meaning to be thrown out or rejected. Note: This is a different idiom based on the number 86, not 87.
• Behind the eight ball: (Idiom, unrelated in meaning) An idiom meaning in a difficult position. Note: This idiom references the number eight, not eighty-seven.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being seven more than eighty

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 87
• lxxxvii