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.

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2016

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

“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

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 De Vere, Gaston du C.

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