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Music. In early use: †an interval of a seventh (obsolete). In later use: the seventh note of a diatonic scale; a chord containing this note. Cf. se…
Music. An interval spanning seven notes on the diatonic scale; a note six degrees of the scale above or below a given note; a chord containing a note…
A seventh (seventh, n. 3). Also as a modifier, as in septime chord.