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

Finally, having come to the seventy-eighth year of his life, he died of old age, and was buried in S. Pietro Maggiore, in the year 1530.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto by Gaston du C. De Vere

He was in his seventy-eighth year when he died.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy