Definitions for seventy-eight

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seventy-eight sev·enty-eight

Spelling: [sev-uh n-tee-eyt]

IPA: /ˈsɛv ən tiˈeɪt/

Seventy-Eight is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in seventy-eight (-eeeghinsttvy).

Definitions for seventy-eight

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.
4. an early type of shellac-based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute.

adjective

1. amounting to 78 in number.

Origin of seventy-eight

First recorded in 1950-55

Examples for seventy-eight

It contained seventy-eight items, thirty-four of them passed.

When day broke seventy-eight bitten dromedaries were counted.

seventy-eight percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way they are currently being governed, according to Gallup.

He was replaced on the Bench at the Restoration, at the age of seventy-eight, but retired in 1663.

seventy-eight people were originally diagnosed with the Skid Row strain—of those, 60 were homeless.

The New York City Fire Department had lost seven hundred and seventy-eight men from its founding in 1865 until September 10, 2001.

seventy-eight percent of U.S. families now report buying organic food, up from 73 percent in 2009.

I shall live to see him in the saddle yet, though I am seventy-eight.

The lines of railway at that time, 1834, amounted to seventy-eight miles.

With a Bibliography and seventy-eight Illustrations, crown 8vo, 9s.