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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.

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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."

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

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

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

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

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