18

Questions about 18

What does 18 mean?

18 means "the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for 18?

Close synonyms include eighteen, XVIII, eighteen, xviii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is 18 a common word?

18 is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.