Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   
cardinal number afterseventy-seven and beforeseventy-nine ; - noun   A 
gramophone record designed to berotated at 78revolutions perminute ; a78  
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
 - adjective being eight more than seventy
 - noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
 
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Examples
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In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.
California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002
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In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.
California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002
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Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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I was cheering at thirty-three rpm, and the rest of the squad was at seventy-eight.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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“Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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During that war, NATO planes had bombed civilian infrastructure and inhabited areas of Serbia, flying more than 38,000 missions over the course of seventy-eight days, and dropping almost twenty thousand bombs.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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“Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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At seventy-eight, his metabolism was certainly in high gear.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
 
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