seventy-eighth

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-eytth, -eyth] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

adjective

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

2. being one of 78 equal parts.

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noun

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

2. the seventy-eighth member of a series.

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seventy-eighth

This past January, I flew back to Prairie View for my mother’s seventy-eighth birthday.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 13, 2016

“I read in the paper the other day that a man from Portland hiked Katahdin to celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday,” she said conversationally.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Galileo died peacefully in his sleep on the night of 8/9 January 1642, a few weeks short of his seventy-eighth birthday.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Mary, dau. of Robert Symes, of the Island of Jamaica, Esq., and dying 28 Nov. 1826, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, left issue two sons, i.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

Finally, having become old, unfit for work, and helpless, he was obliged to go on crutches, being unable to stand upright, and so died, after long illness and decrepitude, in his seventy-eighth year.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall