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seventy-eight

American  
[sev-uhn-tee-eyt] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈeɪt /

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 78 or LXXVIII.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 78 in number.

Example Sentences

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It looks like it could fall over pretty easily, but it’s been calculated that it would take a wind force of seventy-eight tons to knock it over.

From Literature

By the late spring of 1845, now age seventy-eight, Jackson was in serious decline.

From Literature

Three hundred seventy-eight days later, the Huskies have a chance to right that wrong, when they take on the Sun Devils at 7:30 p.m.

From Seattle Times

“It’s all here, filling the whole school. Three hundred seventy-eight miles of it, according to Michael Amorosa—and he’s never wrong.”

From Literature

"Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?"

From Literature