EIGHTY-SEVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eighty-seven mean? 

• EIGHTY-SEVEN (adjective)
  The adjective EIGHTY-SEVEN has 1 sense:

1. being seven more than eighty

  Familiarity information: EIGHTY-SEVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EIGHTY-SEVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being seven more than eighty

Synonyms:

87; eighty-seven; lxxxvii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

After some search, it was found in the box, at the bottom of a horse's nose-bag; wherein (besides hay) there was discovered an old gold watch, with chain and seals, which Mr. Barkis had worn on his wedding-day, and which had never been seen before or since; a silver tobacco-stopper, in the form of a leg; an imitation lemon, full of minute cups and saucers, which I have some idea Mr. Barkis must have purchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwards found himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half, in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, in perfectly clean Bank notes; certain receipts for Bank of England stock; an old horseshoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and an oyster-shell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)