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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seventh
I.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The store is on Seventh Avenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In seventh grade, the problem increased once again, with nearly 22 percent of students identified as work-inhibited.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, the gravity field on the lunar surface is about one seventh as strong as on Earth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seventh

Seventh \Sev"enth\, a. [From Seven: cf. AS. seofo[eth]a.]

  1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

    On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
    --Gen. ii.

  2. 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

    Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday.

    Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.

Seventh

Seventh \Sev"enth\, n.

  1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

  2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.

  3. (Mus.)

    1. An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

    2. A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seventh

c.1300, from seven + -th (1); earlier sevende, seveth, from Old English seofunda (Anglian, Northumbrian), seofoþa (West Saxon), from Proto-Germanic *sebundon (cognates: Old Norse sjaundi, Old Saxon sivondo, Old High German sibunto, German siebente, siebte). The music note sense is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
seventh

a. The ordinal form of the number seven. n. 1 The person or thing in the seventh position. 2 One of seven equal parts of a whole. 3 (context music English) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.

WordNet
seventh

adj. coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position [syn: 7th]

seventh
  1. n. position seven in a countable series of things

  2. a seventh part [syn: one-seventh]

  3. the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it

Wikipedia
Seventh

Seventh is the ordinal form of the number seven. Seventh may refer to:

  • Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • A fraction (mathematics), ⅐, equal to one of seven equal aparts
Seventh (chord)

In music, the seventh factor of a chord is the note or pitch seven scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the seventh is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in third inversion .

Conventionally, the seventh is fourth in importance to the root, fifth, and third, with third inversion being the third strongest inversion and the seventh variably minor or major.

Usage examples of "seventh".

I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.

Six pearl-bright years aflower with gold of joy, Sprung from the heart of those brave tear-fed years: But what that seventh single stamen is My little wit must leave for thee to tell.

When in the seventh round Erik leans in and takes the last of these, an ambidextrous first baseman from the University of Pittsburgh named Brant Colamarino, Paul wears an expression of pure bliss.

Hussein is going to meet the Seventh Brigade, which is stationed at Bir Oassa.

This blemish consisted of a marked flatting of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh notes of the refrain or chorus of the piece.

PREFACE The Murder IT WAS ON THE SEVENTH TIME THEY HAD PUSHED THE AMERICAN boy down into the liquid excrement of the cesspit that he failed to fight back, and died down there, every orifice filled with unspeakable filth.

Arion: the celebrated Greek bard and citharist, who, in the seventh century before Christ, lived at the court of Periander, tyrant of Corinth.

She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.

Holding in her imperial hands the register of cardinal sins, she fancied that she could be indulgent for six of them, and keep all her severity for the seventh, lewdness, which in her estimation could not be forgiven.

Seventh child of Leo the Drungar, who conducted military and administrative affairs for the Byzantine court in Thessalonica, Constantine held a number of official and diplomatic posts and was raised amid the stark icon-free churches of the iconoclasts who were then in power in Constantinople.

But probably none of the Weagles gave five minutes thought a year to theology or ecclesiology, except for Ora, who occasionally stirred up a lot of interesting family irritation by announcing that he was going to become a Catholic, an Episcopalian, a Buddhist, or a Seventh Day Adventist.

Feran had taken Egyl and Seventh Company, as well as the two Southern Guard companies, to Sudon, with another promotion order for Estepp to captain and the order dismissing Captain Dezyn.

On that day, too, William declared in council that he had appointed the same regency which had governed the kingdom during his last absence, and embarking on the seventh at Margate, arrived at Orange-Polder in the evening, under convoy of vice-admiral Aylmer.

Meridian, entelechy of the seventh sphere, lord of dream and shadow, faced his would-be assassin little strengthened.

Or she must find some way to use the meddling of the entelechy of the seventh sphere to her advantage: if Tempus sought out Datan and made an end to him, not Roxane or any other witch or adept of Wizardwall would scour the hills for souls to buy him peace.