Seventh Definition

sĕvənth
noun
The one following the sixth.
Webster's New World
The ordinal number matching the number seven in a series.
American Heritage
Any of the seven equal parts of something;17
Webster's New World
The seventh tone of an ascending diatonic scale, or a tone six degrees above or below any given tone in such a scale; leading tone; subtonic.
Webster's New World
The interval between two such tones, or a combination of them.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Preceded by six others in a series; 7th.
Webster's New World
Designating any of the seven equal parts of something.
Webster's New World

The ordinal form of the number seven.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adverb
In the seventh place, rank, group, etc.
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abbreviation
7th, 7th; (in names of monarchs and popes) VII.
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Other Word Forms of Seventh

Noun

Singular:
seventh
Plural:
sevenths

Origin of Seventh

  • Middle English alteration of sefende from Old English seofunda from seofon seven seven

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Seventh Sentence Examples

  • She continued up Seventh Street and turned south on Main and drove toward the mountains.

  • I already have the seventh and eighth books of the "Aeneid" and one book of the "Iliad," all of which is most fortunate, as I have come almost to the end of my embossed text-books.

  • Here is one I got at Wagram" (he touched his side) "and a second at Smolensk"--he showed a scar on his cheek--"and this leg which as you see does not want to march, I got that on the seventh at the great battle of la Moskowa.

  • Each of the four faces of each rod contains multiples of one of the nine digits, and is similar to one of the slips just described, the first rod containing the multiples of o, I, 9, 8, the second of o, 2, 9, 7, the third of o, 3, 9, 6, the fourth of 0, 4, 9, 5, the fifth of I, 2, 8, 7, the sixth of I, 3, 8, 6, the seventh of I, 4, 8, 5, the eighth of 2, 3, 7, 6, the ninth of 2, 4, 7, 5, and the tenth of 3, 4, 6, 5.

  • At a later period he was one of the leading contributors to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (seventh and eighth editions), the articles on Electricity, Hydrodynamics, Magnetism, Microscope, Optics, Stereoscope, Voltaic Electricity, &c., being from his pen.

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