seventy-eighth

[ sev-uhn-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
2. being one of 78 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-eighth part, especially of one (1/78).
2. the seventy-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

He was in his seventy-eighth year when he passed away—wherefore in his last days he must have been "a mine of memories."

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He died in his seventy-eighth year an obscure recluse whose works were all but forgotten.

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To Tintoret's great grief, this daughter died as she was thirty years of age, and her father was in his seventy-eighth year.

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Seventy-seventh week, runs around table; seventy-eighth, walks over threshold without holding on .

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White survived him many years, and died in the seventy-eighth year of his age, 1707.

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