seventy-eight

1. 1.

   being eight more than seventy

   Synonyms78lxxviii

   Similarcardinal

Questions about seventy-eight

What does seventy-eight mean?

seventy-eight means "the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seventy-eight?

seventy-eight has 3 syllables and divides as se-ven-ty-eight under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for seventy-eight?

Close synonyms include 78, LXXVIII, 78, 78, lxxviii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seventy-eight a common word?

seventy-eight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.