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单词 seven days
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 117v 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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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