before 1000;Middle Englisheightethe,Old Englisheahtotha; cognate with Old High Germanahtoda,Old Norseāttandi,Gothicahtud-. See eight, -th2
Examples from the web for eighth
Delany started this project as a widow in her eighth decade.
The poem was probably composed in the seventh or eighth century and spread primarily through song or spoken verse.
They had known each other since eighth grade, sharing the silly private jokes that only longtime pals know.
He would bring us tomatoes, and greens and okra and cabbage from that little farm he had right there on eighth avenue.
It's the security breakthrough every eighth grader has been waiting for.
In future, any sect whose established teachings forbid education after the eighth grade may put its children into wood workshops.
In fact, it appears that the water level has shrunken by an eighth or three sixteens of an inch.
There's also a switch to add some dotted eighth notes to your delay.
Last year the state's income per head was eighth from the bottom of the state rankings.
The eighth card is how family or friends will influence the question.
British Dictionary definitions for eighth
eighth
/eɪtθ/
adjective
1.
(usually prenominal)
coming after the seventh and before the ninth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of eight: often written 8th
(as noun): the eighth in line
noun
2.
one of eight equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, measurement, etc