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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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“Can we go to the bakery on Seventy-Eighth Street? They have the best donuts. Even better than the ones at the bodega.”

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“But it’s all the way on up Seventy-Eighth Street, though. That’s far.”

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Galileo died peacefully in his sleep on the night of 8/9 January 1642, a few weeks short of his seventy-eighth birthday.

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“I read in the paper the other day that a man from Portland hiked Katahdin to celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday,” she said conversationally.

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The seventy-eighth edition of the Whitney Biennial opened its doors, at the museum’s new downtown location, in mid-March and runs through June 11th.

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