seventy-eighth
[sev-uh n-tee-eytth, -eyth]
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adjective
next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
being one of 78 equal parts.
noun
a seventy-eighth part, especially of one (1/78).
the seventy-eighth member of a series.
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Examples from the Web for seventy-eighth
Historical Examples of seventy-eighth
The first year of Saka corresponds to the seventy-eighth of the Christian era.
A Visit to JavaW. Basil Worsfold
At one time the Rebs were right in on top of the Seventy-Eighth.
Andersonville, Volume 2John McElroy
He died 1642, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, the prisoner of the Inquisition.
Gospel PhilosophyJ. H. Ward
There he died in 1680, in the twenty-eighth year of his captivity, and seventy-eighth of his age.
Curious EpitaphsWilliam Andrews
Thus expired Tiberius in the seventy-eighth year of his age.