Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number seven in a series.
- noun One of seven equal parts.
- noun Music An interval encompassing seven diatonic degrees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Last in order of a series of seven; preceded by six of the same kind; next in order after that which is sixth: an ordinal numeral.
- Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which a whole may be divided: as, the seventh part.
- noun One next in order after the sixth.
- noun The quotient of unity divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which a whole is divided.
- noun In music:
- noun A tone on the seventh degree above or below a given tone; the next tone to the octave.
- noun The interval between any tone, and a tone on the seventh degree above or below it.
- noun The harmonic combination of two tones at the interval thus defined.
- noun In a scale, the seventh tone from the bottom; the leading-tone: solmizated si, or, in the tonic sol-fa system, ti.
- noun In early English law, a seventh of the rents of the year, or of movables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
- adjective Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
- adjective the seventh day of the week; Saturday.
- adjective See under
Baptist . - noun One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
- noun An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
- noun A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
seven . - noun The person or thing in the seventh position.
- noun One of seven equal parts of a whole.
- noun music A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
- adjective coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
- noun one part in seven equal parts
- noun position seven in a countable series of things
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[Students] recently viewed the dissection of a dead deer to culminate a deer/ecology unit in seventh-grade science at the Evansville middle school.
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 3 weeks 5 days ago wish I had gotten to do this, when I was in seventh grade. the best I ever got to do was cut a chicken thigh that was store bought in 6th grade.
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Tianhe-1A was in seventh place in the last rankings.
China's Tianhe-1A takes supercomputer crown from US Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010
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I opened it and I might as well have been in seventh grade again — I just could not put it down.
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HALLOWEEN CRAFT PARTY, for children in seventh-grade and younger, 10 a. m.-noon Oct. 30, Marshall Community Center, 4133 Rectortown Rd.
What's Happening in Fauquier County, Oct. 17-24, 2010 Post 2010
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I opened it and I might as well have been in seventh grade again — I just could not put it down.
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(BTW, bit did excellently in seventh grade science.)
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At its heart, Blood of Ambrose is a coming of age tale that follows the Lathmar the seventh from the tender age of twelve to manhood.
Get Enge? Lou Anders 2009
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George Orwell, 1984 I read this book in seventh grade and wrote a book report on it.
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I mean, who goes on a first date prepared to talk at length about that hideously embarrassing episode in seventh grade — or that really annoying bad habit — or the first boy to break your heart?
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