seventy-eighth

[ sev-uh n-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

/ ˈsɛv ən tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.

being one of 78 equal parts.

a seventy-eighth part, especially of one (1/78).

the seventy-eighth member of a series.

Words nearby seventy-eighth

He had called the roll of his company at daylight, and had then gone to see a friend in the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders.
Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59|William Forbes-Mitchell
Seventy-seventh week, runs around table; seventy-eighth, walks over threshold without holding on .
The Mind of the Child, Part II|W. Preyer
Own one and nine one hundred and seventy-eighth part of the proceeds?
Strange Stories of the Great Valley|Abbie Johnston Grosvenor
Mr. R. Funnell, who is in his seventy-eighth year, was most enthusiastically received.
The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.|Various

Half an hour after midnight, on the eighth of February, she fell asleep: it is supposed in her seventy-eighth year.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin|Robert Louis Stevenson