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Seventy-eight for Dummies

adjective

pronunciation: 'sɛvənti'eɪt

What does Seventy-eight really mean?

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Seventy-eight is a number that comes after seventy-seven and before seventy-nine. It is made up of two parts: "seventy" and "eight."

Seventy is a word that represents a group of ten sets of seven. Imagine you have a basket with ten boxes inside, and each box contains seven apples. If you count all the apples, you will have seventy apples. So, when you say "seventy," it's like saying you have ten sets of seven things.

Now, if you add eight to seventy, it means you are taking another group of eight things and adding it to the existing seventy. Let's go back to the baskets with the apples. If you have seventy apples in ten boxes and you add eight more apples to them, you will have a total of seventy-eight apples.

Think of it like this: if you have seventy friends and you invite eight more to come to your party, then you will have a big gathering with seventy-eight friends.

In the same way, when we write or say the word "seventy-eight," we are referring to the number that comes after seventy-seven and just before seventy-nine. It's like having a combination of seventy sets of seven things and an additional eight things.

So, if you are counting and you reach seventy-seven and want to continue counting, the next number would be seventy-eight. It's like taking a step forward in the sequence of numbers.

Revised and Fact checked by Sophia Wright on 2023-10-30 01:59:49

Seventy-eight In a sentece

Learn how to use Seventy-eight inside a sentece

  • There are seventy-eight keys on a standard piano.
  • If you have seventy-eight apples and give away 10, you will have sixty-eight left.
  • My grandmother turned seventy-eight years old last week.
  • The winning team scored seventy-eight points in the game.
  • I read a book with seventy-eight pages in one day.

Seventy-eight Synonyms

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Seventy-eight Hypernyms

Words that are more generic than the original word.

Seventy-eight Similar Words

Words that similar to the original word, but are not synonyms.