seventy-eight

[ sev-uhn-tee-eyt ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
2. a symbol for this number, as 78 or LXXVIII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 78 in number.

Example Sentences

By the late spring of 1845, now age seventy-eight, Jackson was in serious decline.

From Literature

Three hundred seventy-eight days later, the Huskies have a chance to right that wrong, when they take on the Sun Devils at 7:30 p.m.

From Seattle Times

“It’s all here, filling the whole school. Three hundred seventy-eight miles of it, according to Michael Amorosa—and he’s never wrong.”

From Literature

"Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?"

From Literature

Nineteen seventy-eight would turn out to be a crucial year for San Francisco’s identity.

From The Guardian