eighth

• eight (obsolete)
• eightth (nonstandard)

From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ātth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/
• (General American) enPR: ātth, āth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtθ, -eɪθ

eighth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

• 8th, 8^th, VIIIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VIII

eighth (plural eighths)

1. The person or thing in the eighth position.
2. One of eight equal parts of a whole.
3. (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 499:

     At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.

• (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
• (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)
• (⅛ oz.): ochava (historical Spanish contexts)

• (One of eight equal parts): epogdoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1+¹⁄₈)

eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)

1. to divide by eight
   • 2013, Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking‎, page 31:

     The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.

• octave

• Height, Highet, height, highte