seven daysn.

Brit.

/ˌsɛvn ˈdeɪz/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvən ˈdeɪz/

Forms: see seven adj. and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seven adj., day n.

Etymology: < seven adj. + the plural of day n.

As a more or less fixed expression. Less significant uses of the number seven modifying days (cf. seven adj. 1a) are not covered here.

1. In poetic and literary use: a week; often as the type of a long (and arduous) period of time. Also in seven days and seven nights and variants.In quot. a1470 as a count noun; cf. sennight n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a week > [noun]

weekeOE

sennightOE

seven daysOE

weekOE

seven days and seven nightsOE

(an) eight daysc1160

a week of daysa1382

week1398

sennight dayc1425

septimane1450

seventh night1567

sennight space1599

hebdomad1600

septuary1646

heptad1876

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time

seven daysOE

a while1297

dreichc1440

dreightc1450

yearsa1470

age1577

week1597

montha1616

patriarch's age1693

length1697

eternity1700

a month of Sundays1759

a week of Sundays1822

a week of Saturdays1831

dog's age1833

forever1833

while1836

aeon1880

donkey's years1916

light year1929

yonks1968

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. viii. 53 Ic þe halsie þurh þone, þe þu to færst, þæt ic ne þurfe libban seofon dagas æfter þe on þysum middangearde.

OE Homily: Invention of Cross (Auct. F.4.32) in M.-C. Bodden Old Eng. Finding of True Cross 85 Þa bebead seo cwen Elena þæt hine man name and sette on ænne diopne seað.., and þa wunode he þær seofan dagas & seofan niht.

c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 53 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 2 With-oute mete and drinke þare seue dawes he lay.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 162 They..rode day be day well-nye a seven dayes or they founde ony aventure.

1611 Bible (King James) Job ii. 13 They sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights.

1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 43 Seven days are past, since I beheld thy face.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 23 Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse.

1857 C. Heavysege Saul 38 Seven days I waited,—ay, till the skirts o' the term Had disappeared.

1962 P. Goodman Lordly Hudson 125 Now where is he, whose boyish beauty could quiet lust for seven days?

2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May 14 The Glorpyens could not pry themselves away. They sat there for seven days and seven nights.

2. A significant period of a week, for example with reference to punishment, duty, etc., or (in Judaeo-Christian use) with reference to the creation of the world (see Genesis 1–2:3). Also: a period of seven days' imprisonment.With use with reference to culturally significant periods of seven days, cf. seven adj. 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > some particular week

seven daysOE

weekOE

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 418 Cep þæt þu fæste seofon dagas georne, and ic syððan cume eft to þe, and þe gefullige.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4356 Forr seffne daȝhess brinngenn aȝȝ Þe wuke till hiss ende.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xii. 15 Seuen days ȝe schull eten þerf brede.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 God, that..all thing vrocht in dayis seweyne.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 257 But for the greater solemnity, for seven dayes a general howling..was made.

1731 D. Jennings Beauty & Benefit Early Piety (ed. 2) 133 He who touched a dead man, was unclean for seven days.

1850 I. Williams (title) The Seven Days, or the Old and New Creation.

1892 Oxf. Chron. 19 Mar. 6/7 Fined 1s. and costs 3s. 6d., or seven days.

1941 Amer. Imago 2 191 Till the present day a Jew is forbidden to wear shoes..during the seven days of mourning (shivah).

2002 A. Murray Skytrucker xvi. 179 I thought he was still banged up. He got seven days, didn't he?

Compounds

Frequently with first element in singular form, as seven-day, or in the genitive plural, as seven days'.

C1. General use as a modifier, with the sense ‘consisting of or extending over seven days’.Quot. eOE shows comparable use of the genitive plural seofon daga in Old English.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > specific number of times a week

seven dayseOE

a-weekOE

weekly1403

hebdomadally1816

tri-weekly1832

week-long1847

eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 409 Swilc bið seo an snæd æghwylcum men selre micle..to ðycgganne.., ðonne him sie seofon daga symbelgereordu.

1567 G. Turberville in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. (new ed.) f. 117^v At length the tempest rose, the windes did blo,..That seauen daies space Leander might not go To Sestus shore, as he was wont of olde.

1624 F. Quarles Job Militant (1717) 171 Worn bare with grief, the patient Job betraid His seven-days silence.

1724 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II (1863) xix. 638 If he owns it he is to have seven days' imprisonment and three penances in Church.

1879 Law Rep.: Ireland 2 386 It is competent to him..to exchange such six-day license for a general or seven-day license.

1962 A. Luthuli Let my People Go 214 I had seven days' grace before the banning order took effect.

2017 L. Rivera Educ. Margot Sanchez xii. 135 Camille's in the foulest mood. She's on day three of a seven-day juice cleanse, in preparation for Nick's party.

C2.

seven day disease n. (also †seven days disease, †seven days' disease) Medicine (now historical) tetanus occurring in a newborn child (neonatal tetanus), which typically results from infection of the stump of the umbilical cord at birth and produces symptoms within five to ten days. [After Spanish mal de Siete-dias (1772 or earlier).] Neonatal tetanus has also been called, independently, eight-day sickness (in Scotland) and nine-day fits (in Ireland).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > tetanus

tetanusa1398

shotec1440

opisthotonos1582

emprosthotonos1585

jaw-fallen1631

tetanism1681

trismus1684

locked jaw1754

lockjaw1768

pleurothotonos1783

seven day disease1789

orthotonos1869

pleurotonus1899

1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) I. 338 Having escaped the seven-days-disease, they thrive well until the third or fourth month.

1884 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 87 85 It is called there [sc. the West Indies], and in South America, seven days' disease.

1947 C. A. Mettler Hist. of Med. 746/1 It is obvious that tetanus neonatorum was known locally as ‘seven-day disease’.

2009 Americas 66 73 Brazilians and the Portuguese called neonatal tetanus the ‘Seven Day Disease’ (mal de sete dias).

seven day fever n. Medicine (now chiefly historical) any of various fevers of infectious origin that typically have a duration of seven days; spec. certain forms of borreliosis, dengue, and leptospirosis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration

tertian1362

quartana1387

quotidiana1398

ephemera1398

quarterna1568

day-fever1601

nonan1601

quintan1601

septimane1601

sextan1601

semitertian1609

triple quartan1625

diary1640

septan1657

third ague1674

quartanary1684

subintrant1684

intermittent1693

nonary1747

seven day fever1788

octan1799

third-day ague1818

type-fever1819

triple tertian1822

triplicate quartan (ague)1822

tetartophyia1842

1788 A. Wilson Bath Waters 70 I have distinguished plain fevers by their periods into three kinds, first, the ardent or seven day fever.

1823 T. Miner in T. Miner & W. Tully Ess. Fevers i. x. 199 There can be but little certainty of producing a resolution of a seven-day fever, after the first twenty-four hours.

1870 Med. Rec. 5 1/1 It [sc. relapsing fever] has been called the Five-day Fever, the Short Fever, the Seven-day Fever, and so by a variety of names.

1907 Indian Med. Gaz. 42 304/1 It is..possible that many of these cases were the ‘seven-day fever’ of Rogers, which has many points of resemblance to dengue.

1918 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 28 435 There prevails in the province of Fukuoka a disease known as nanukayami, or seven day fever, the symptoms of which are like those of atypical Weil's disease.

1958 J. M. Alston & J. C. Broom Leptospirosis in Man & Animals i. 11 The first of these [sc. Leptospira hebdomadis] causes a mild form of leptospirosis—seven-day fever—and has been found mostly in Eastern Asia.

2019 Cytokine 115 14/1 Arthralgia, ostealgia, myalgia, headache and skin rash are the most common clinical symptoms of DF [= dengue fever], which persists for around one week, hence the common names of ‘breakbone fever’ and ‘seven-day fever’.

seven-days-long adj. now chiefly South Asian that lasts for seven days.

ΚΠ

1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 354 The seven-days-long false oath.

1957 Financial Times 23 Oct. 2/7 A selection of four scenes from the seven-day-long Yemenite wedding ceremony.

2016 Early Times (India) (Nexis) 6 Apr. The seven days long camp was organized by the NSS unit of Dogra College of Education.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seven days
释义	seven daysn. Brit. /ˌsɛvn ˈdeɪz/, U.S. /ˌsɛvən ˈdeɪz/ Forms: see seven adj. and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seven adj., day n. Etymology: < seven adj. + the plural of day n. As a more or less fixed expression. Less significant uses of the number seven modifying days (cf. seven adj. 1a) are not covered here. 1. In poetic and literary use: a week; often as the type of a long (and arduous) period of time. Also in seven days and seven nights and variants.In quot. a1470 as a count noun; cf. sennight n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] weekeOE sennightOE seven daysOE weekOE seven days and seven nightsOE (an) eight daysc1160 a week of daysa1382 week1398 sennight dayc1425 septimane1450 seventh night1567 sennight space1599 hebdomad1600 septuary1646 heptad1876 the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time seven daysOE a while1297 dreichc1440 dreightc1450 yearsa1470 age1577 week1597 montha1616 patriarch's age1693 length1697 eternity1700 a month of Sundays1759 a week of Sundays1822 a week of Saturdays1831 dog's age1833 forever1833 while1836 aeon1880 donkey's years1916 light year1929 yonks1968 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. viii. 53 Ic þe halsie þurh þone, þe þu to færst, þæt ic ne þurfe libban seofon dagas æfter þe on þysum middangearde. OE Homily: Invention of Cross (Auct. F.4.32) in M.-C. Bodden Old Eng. Finding of True Cross 85 Þa bebead seo cwen Elena þæt hine man name and sette on ænne diopne seað.., and þa wunode he þær seofan dagas & seofan niht. c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 53 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 2 With-oute mete and drinke þare seue dawes he lay. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 162 They..rode day be day well-nye a seven dayes or they founde ony aventure. 1611 Bible (King James) Job ii. 13 They sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights. 1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 43 Seven days are past, since I beheld thy face. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 23 Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse. 1857 C. Heavysege Saul 38 Seven days I waited,—ay, till the skirts o' the term Had disappeared. 1962 P. Goodman Lordly Hudson 125 Now where is he, whose boyish beauty could quiet lust for seven days? 2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May 14 The Glorpyens could not pry themselves away. They sat there for seven days and seven nights. 2. A significant period of a week, for example with reference to punishment, duty, etc., or (in Judaeo-Christian use) with reference to the creation of the world (see Genesis 1–2:3). Also: a period of seven days' imprisonment.With use with reference to culturally significant periods of seven days, cf. seven adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > some particular week seven daysOE weekOE OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 418 Cep þæt þu fæste seofon dagas georne, and ic syððan cume eft to þe, and þe gefullige. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4356 Forr seffne daȝhess brinngenn aȝȝ Þe wuke till hiss ende. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xii. 15 Seuen days ȝe schull eten þerf brede. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 God, that..all thing vrocht in dayis seweyne. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 257 But for the greater solemnity, for seven dayes a general howling..was made. 1731 D. Jennings Beauty & Benefit Early Piety (ed. 2) 133 He who touched a dead man, was unclean for seven days. 1850 I. Williams (title) The Seven Days, or the Old and New Creation. 1892 Oxf. Chron. 19 Mar. 6/7 Fined 1s. and costs 3s. 6d., or seven days. 1941 Amer. Imago 2 191 Till the present day a Jew is forbidden to wear shoes..during the seven days of mourning (shivah). 2002 A. Murray Skytrucker xvi. 179 I thought he was still banged up. He got seven days, didn't he? Compounds Frequently with first element in singular form, as seven-day, or in the genitive plural, as seven days'. C1. General use as a modifier, with the sense ‘consisting of or extending over seven days’.Quot. eOE shows comparable use of the genitive plural seofon daga in Old English. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > specific number of times a week seven dayseOE a-weekOE weekly1403 hebdomadally1816 tri-weekly1832 week-long1847 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 409 Swilc bið seo an snæd æghwylcum men selre micle..to ðycgganne.., ðonne him sie seofon daga symbelgereordu. 1567 G. Turberville in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. (new ed.) f. 117^v At length the tempest rose, the windes did blo,..That seauen daies space Leander might not go To Sestus shore, as he was wont of olde. 1624 F. Quarles Job Militant (1717) 171 Worn bare with grief, the patient Job betraid His seven-days silence. 1724 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II (1863) xix. 638 If he owns it he is to have seven days' imprisonment and three penances in Church. 1879 Law Rep.: Ireland 2 386 It is competent to him..to exchange such six-day license for a general or seven-day license. 1962 A. Luthuli Let my People Go 214 I had seven days' grace before the banning order took effect. 2017 L. Rivera Educ. Margot Sanchez xii. 135 Camille's in the foulest mood. She's on day three of a seven-day juice cleanse, in preparation for Nick's party. C2. seven day disease n. (also †seven days disease, †seven days' disease) Medicine (now historical) tetanus occurring in a newborn child (neonatal tetanus), which typically results from infection of the stump of the umbilical cord at birth and produces symptoms within five to ten days. [After Spanish mal de Siete-dias (1772 or earlier).] Neonatal tetanus has also been called, independently, eight-day sickness (in Scotland) and nine-day fits (in Ireland). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > tetanus tetanusa1398 shotec1440 opisthotonos1582 emprosthotonos1585 jaw-fallen1631 tetanism1681 trismus1684 locked jaw1754 lockjaw1768 pleurothotonos1783 seven day disease1789 orthotonos1869 pleurotonus1899 1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) I. 338 Having escaped the seven-days-disease, they thrive well until the third or fourth month. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 87 85 It is called there [sc. the West Indies], and in South America, seven days' disease. 1947 C. A. Mettler Hist. of Med. 746/1 It is obvious that tetanus neonatorum was known locally as ‘seven-day disease’. 2009 Americas 66 73 Brazilians and the Portuguese called neonatal tetanus the ‘Seven Day Disease’ (mal de sete dias). seven day fever n. Medicine (now chiefly historical) any of various fevers of infectious origin that typically have a duration of seven days; spec. certain forms of borreliosis, dengue, and leptospirosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration tertian1362 quartana1387 quotidiana1398 ephemera1398 quarterna1568 day-fever1601 nonan1601 quintan1601 septimane1601 sextan1601 semitertian1609 triple quartan1625 diary1640 septan1657 third ague1674 quartanary1684 subintrant1684 intermittent1693 nonary1747 seven day fever1788 octan1799 third-day ague1818 type-fever1819 triple tertian1822 triplicate quartan (ague)1822 tetartophyia1842 1788 A. Wilson Bath Waters 70 I have distinguished plain fevers by their periods into three kinds, first, the ardent or seven day fever. 1823 T. Miner in T. Miner & W. Tully Ess. Fevers i. x. 199 There can be but little certainty of producing a resolution of a seven-day fever, after the first twenty-four hours. 1870 Med. Rec. 5 1/1 It [sc. relapsing fever] has been called the Five-day Fever, the Short Fever, the Seven-day Fever, and so by a variety of names. 1907 Indian Med. Gaz. 42 304/1 It is..possible that many of these cases were the ‘seven-day fever’ of Rogers, which has many points of resemblance to dengue. 1918 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 28 435 There prevails in the province of Fukuoka a disease known as nanukayami, or seven day fever, the symptoms of which are like those of atypical Weil's disease. 1958 J. M. Alston & J. C. Broom Leptospirosis in Man & Animals i. 11 The first of these [sc. Leptospira hebdomadis] causes a mild form of leptospirosis—seven-day fever—and has been found mostly in Eastern Asia. 2019 Cytokine 115 14/1 Arthralgia, ostealgia, myalgia, headache and skin rash are the most common clinical symptoms of DF [= dengue fever], which persists for around one week, hence the common names of ‘breakbone fever’ and ‘seven-day fever’. seven-days-long adj. now chiefly South Asian that lasts for seven days. ΚΠ 1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 354 The seven-days-long false oath. 1957 Financial Times 23 Oct. 2/7 A selection of four scenes from the seven-day-long Yemenite wedding ceremony. 2016 Early Times (India) (Nexis) 6 Apr. The seven days long camp was organized by the NSS unit of Dogra College of Education. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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