Meaning & use
eighteen
The whole number that comes after seventeen and before nineteen, equal to ten plus eight.
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She turned eighteen last month and registered to vote for the first time.
The recipe calls for baking the cookies for eighteen minutes.
A note on using this word
The correct spelling is eighteen; eightteen is a common misspelling with an extra t.
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