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Definition of seventh in English: seventhordinal number ˈsɛv(ə)nθˈsɛvənθ 1Constituting number seven in a sequence; 7th. his seventh goal of the season he was the seventh of eight children Example sentencesExamples - The defeat, City's seventh in eight games, leaves the Minstermen just one point clear of Division Three bottom-club Exeter City.
- True mozzarella is made from the milk of the water buffalo, imported from India to Italy in the seventh century.
- It features a rare seventh century Buddha from India.
- To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising.
- It was Gillingham's seventh league defeat in a row, but coach John Gorman would not talk of relegation.
- His aim is to discover the effect of the text's message on the earliest audience at the end of the seventh century B.C.
- Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st.
- Of the few poets whose work has survived from the sixth and seventh centuries, the most notable is Pindar.
- The history of Ely Cathedral is profound - it began as a humble Benedictine abbey in the seventh century.
- A Graham Delaney goal in the seventh minute set them on their way.
- There are six sites for development in Central Place, with the area opposite the Market Theatre constituting a seventh site.
- Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
- At the beginning of the seventh century St. Gobban founded a monastery at Leighlin Bridge.
- This was Hearts' seventh defeat in eight league and cup games.
- His seventh goal of the season required no such imagination.
- Arab invaders brought Islam to Morocco during the seventh century.
- Roslea is the site of an ancient church and convent dating back to the seventh century.
- It is believed to have originated from India as early as the seventh century, although the exact origins of chess are unknown.
- We begin with Caedmon, from the seventh century, but by page 6 we are already up to the sixteenth century.
- Richard Burrows gave the visitors an early lead but Danny Walters hit his seventh goal of the season to level the scores.
- 1.1 The seventh finisher or position in a race or competition.
Jo Richardson came seventh Example sentencesExamples - Brendan Foster set a new British record yet finished only seventh.
- Double race winner Chilton was seventh having started tenth.
- Briton Steve Ovett finished fifth and Sriram Singh was seventh in that memorable race.
- He finished sixth in the 1m board event and was seventh off the 3m board.
- The Jets finished seventh in defense, and none of the other three teams playing today ranked higher than 17th.
- She was also seventh in the 500m time trial and plans to compete in both events.
- We finished seventh that season and looked a good bet for promotion the following year.
- In Athens, her Olympic career ended when she finished seventh in her 100m semi-final.
- He has not raced since finishing seventh in an allowance race at Churchill Downs on November 28, 1998.
- However, Yorkshire came a disappointing seventh in the team competition.
- She finished seventh in Birmingham.
- He was expected to finish seventh in the league.
- In five seasons, Stewart has not finished worse than seventh in points.
- We were picked to finish seventh or eighth but we wound up fifth.
- Monifeth Man finishes seventh in the Coral Cup, better than any other Irish trained runner.
- As a 24-year-old in 2001 he rode an excellent race to finish seventh overall, leading many to bill him as a future winner of the race.
- Sunline came out of the Pukekohe race and then finished seventh in the Hong Kong Cup.
- He finished seventh in the April race in Phoenix; he'll need to do better than that on Sunday if he hopes to catch Stewart.
- I had my best season and still only finished seventh in the points.
- Chantell Stierman finished seventh in the 60 kg division weightlifting.
- 1.2 Seventhly (used to introduce a seventh point or reason).
- 1.3Music An interval spanning seven consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.
- 1.4Music The note which is higher by a seventh than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
Example sentencesExamples - The work lies far closer, at least in its harmonic thought, to American Modernism (say, Copland's music of the Twenties) than to what we might expect from familiar Creston - diatonic chords leavened with major sevenths and ninths.
- 1.5Music A chord in which the seventh note of the scale forms an important component.
Example sentencesExamples - Practicing fourths and consecutive sevenths challenges the ear in ways that sixths and thirds don't, in addition to enhancing hand stability.
- It's got a great G major ending with a couple of Gershwinian sevenths and they just adored it.
- Bliss also incorporated Elgar's characteristic falling sevenths, by way of a recognisable tribute to his distinguished and supportive dedicatee.
- Take the most salient feature for the listener - those Elgarian falling sevenths of the second page.
- Heard in this context, it involves the destruction and re-incarnation of the melody; at the close it appears over and above a series of jazz pianist sevenths.
2Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided. Example sentencesExamples - The Plovdiv region alone concentrates a seventh of the arable land and 14 per cent of the labour resources of this country.
- During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
- He was critical of the small quotas, which would mean that one vessel could catch a seventh of the total for certain species in a single fishing trip.
Definition of seventh in US English: seventhordinal numberˈsevənTHˈsɛvənθ 1Constituting number seven in a sequence; 7th. his seventh goal of the season he was the seventh of eight children Example sentencesExamples - We begin with Caedmon, from the seventh century, but by page 6 we are already up to the sixteenth century.
- It was Gillingham's seventh league defeat in a row, but coach John Gorman would not talk of relegation.
- A Graham Delaney goal in the seventh minute set them on their way.
- His seventh goal of the season required no such imagination.
- His aim is to discover the effect of the text's message on the earliest audience at the end of the seventh century B.C.
- True mozzarella is made from the milk of the water buffalo, imported from India to Italy in the seventh century.
- Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st.
- It features a rare seventh century Buddha from India.
- Richard Burrows gave the visitors an early lead but Danny Walters hit his seventh goal of the season to level the scores.
- Roslea is the site of an ancient church and convent dating back to the seventh century.
- The history of Ely Cathedral is profound - it began as a humble Benedictine abbey in the seventh century.
- This was Hearts' seventh defeat in eight league and cup games.
- It is believed to have originated from India as early as the seventh century, although the exact origins of chess are unknown.
- To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising.
- The defeat, City's seventh in eight games, leaves the Minstermen just one point clear of Division Three bottom-club Exeter City.
- Of the few poets whose work has survived from the sixth and seventh centuries, the most notable is Pindar.
- There are six sites for development in Central Place, with the area opposite the Market Theatre constituting a seventh site.
- Arab invaders brought Islam to Morocco during the seventh century.
- Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
- At the beginning of the seventh century St. Gobban founded a monastery at Leighlin Bridge.
- 1.1a seventh/one seventh Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
Example sentencesExamples - During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
- The Plovdiv region alone concentrates a seventh of the arable land and 14 per cent of the labour resources of this country.
- He was critical of the small quotas, which would mean that one vessel could catch a seventh of the total for certain species in a single fishing trip.
- 1.2 The seventh finisher or position in a race or competition.
he finished seventh in the tournament Example sentencesExamples - He finished sixth in the 1m board event and was seventh off the 3m board.
- In Athens, her Olympic career ended when she finished seventh in her 100m semi-final.
- We finished seventh that season and looked a good bet for promotion the following year.
- Double race winner Chilton was seventh having started tenth.
- We were picked to finish seventh or eighth but we wound up fifth.
- Chantell Stierman finished seventh in the 60 kg division weightlifting.
- I had my best season and still only finished seventh in the points.
- Brendan Foster set a new British record yet finished only seventh.
- Monifeth Man finishes seventh in the Coral Cup, better than any other Irish trained runner.
- She finished seventh in Birmingham.
- He was expected to finish seventh in the league.
- As a 24-year-old in 2001 he rode an excellent race to finish seventh overall, leading many to bill him as a future winner of the race.
- In five seasons, Stewart has not finished worse than seventh in points.
- He finished seventh in the April race in Phoenix; he'll need to do better than that on Sunday if he hopes to catch Stewart.
- Briton Steve Ovett finished fifth and Sriram Singh was seventh in that memorable race.
- He has not raced since finishing seventh in an allowance race at Churchill Downs on November 28, 1998.
- She was also seventh in the 500m time trial and plans to compete in both events.
- Sunline came out of the Pukekohe race and then finished seventh in the Hong Kong Cup.
- However, Yorkshire came a disappointing seventh in the team competition.
- The Jets finished seventh in defense, and none of the other three teams playing today ranked higher than 17th.
- 1.3 Seventhly (used to introduce a seventh point or reason).
- 1.4Music An interval spanning seven consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.
- 1.5Music The note which is higher by a seventh than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
Example sentencesExamples - The work lies far closer, at least in its harmonic thought, to American Modernism (say, Copland's music of the Twenties) than to what we might expect from familiar Creston - diatonic chords leavened with major sevenths and ninths.
- 1.6Music A chord in which the seventh note of the scale forms an important component.
Example sentencesExamples - Practicing fourths and consecutive sevenths challenges the ear in ways that sixths and thirds don't, in addition to enhancing hand stability.
- Heard in this context, it involves the destruction and re-incarnation of the melody; at the close it appears over and above a series of jazz pianist sevenths.
- Bliss also incorporated Elgar's characteristic falling sevenths, by way of a recognisable tribute to his distinguished and supportive dedicatee.
- It's got a great G major ending with a couple of Gershwinian sevenths and they just adored it.
- Take the most salient feature for the listener - those Elgarian falling sevenths of the second page.
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