eight year olds
Kids turning nine soon
Eight year olds are children who have lived eight years but not yet nine.
The phrase functions as a noun: The classroom was full of eight year olds.
The hyphenated form eight-year-olds is standard, though the unhyphenated version appears frequently in casual writing.
As a compound adjective before a noun, hyphens are expected: an eight-year-old child.
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- playgroundChildren's outdoor recreation space
- elementaryOf first principles
- second gradeElementary school's third year
- third gradeSchool year for eight-year-olds
kids · recess · show and tell · birthday · candles · toys · cartoons · homework · spelling · multiplication · chapter books · lunchbox · juice box · backpack · missing teeth · loose tooth · tooth fairy · growth spurt
- elementary studentsyoung readers, young writers
- elementary kidsfirst graders, second graders, third graders, fourth graders, fifth graders
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
eight year oldsoctogenarians
People in their eighties
senior citizens · the elderly · adults · centenarians · old people
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