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Definition of Seventy-eight
1. Adjective. Being eight more than seventy.
2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight.
3. Noun. A shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute.
Generic synonyms: Disc, Disk, Phonograph Record, Phonograph Recording, Platter, Record
Definition of Seventy-eight
1. Cardinal numeral. cardinal number after seventy-seven and before seventy-nine; ¹
2. Noun. A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78 ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-eight
Literary usage of Seventy-eight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"On the county of M'Intosh, one thousand six hundred seventy-eight dollars and
forty-eight cents. On the county of Glynn, one thousand seven hundred ..."
2. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"... thence South sixty-nine degrees and a half West one hundred and twenty perches
to a stake ; thence South seventy-eight degrees and a half West two ..."
3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"borough of Bronx, in th« city of New York, as constituted by chapter three hundred
and seventy-eight of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and ..."
4. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Fraudulent exportation; chapter seventy-eight, Masters and servants; chapter
ninety-three, Immigration; sections sixteen hundred and one, sixteen hundred ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston (1905)
"Jefferson at seventy-eight Photogravure from the Original Painting by Thomas Sully,
... SEVENTYEIGHT ..."
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