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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sev•enth (sev′ənth),USA pronunciation adj. - next after the sixth;
being the ordinal number for seven. - being one of seven equal parts.
n. - a seventh part, esp. of one (1⁄7).
- the seventh member of a series.
- Music and Dance
- a tone on the seventh degree from a given tone (counted as the first).
- the interval between such tones.
- the harmonic combination of such tones.
- bef. 950; Middle English; see seven, -th2; replacing Middle English sevethe, Old English seofotha
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/ adj - (usually prenominal) coming after the sixth and before the eighth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of seven: often written 7th
- (as noun): she left on the seventh, he was the seventh to arrive
n - one of seven equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, measurement, etc
- (as modifier): a seventh part
- the fraction equal to one divided by seven ( 1⁄7)
- the interval between one note and another seven notes away from it counting inclusively along the diatonic scale
- one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other
adv - Also: seventhly after the sixth person, position, event, etc
sev•en /ˈsɛvən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- a symbol for this number, as 7 or VII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adj. [before a noun] - amounting to seven in number:my seven sisters.
sev•enth, adj., n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sev•en (sev′ən),USA pronunciation n. - a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- a symbol for this number, as 7 or VII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Gamesa playing card with seven pips.
- Games sevens, (used with a sing. v.) fan-tan (def. 1).
adj. - amounting to seven in number.
v.i. - Games seven out, crap2 (def. 3a).
- bef. 900; Middle English seoven(e), seofne, seven, Old English seofon; cognate with German sieben, Gothic sibun; akin to Old Irish secht, Welsh saith, Latin septem, Greek heptá, Polish siedem, Sanskrit saptá
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