Seventh
['sev(ə)nθ] or ['sɛvənθ]
Definition
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it.
(noun.) position seven in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position .
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
(n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
(n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
Editor: Mervin
Examples
- I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid was regarded as one of the supreme triumphs of the human mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I think in my seventh year. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This provoked the Seventh Crusade, the Crusade of St. Louis, King of France (Louis IX), who was taken prisoner in Egypt and ransomed in 1250. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- SEVENTH NARRATIVE In a Letter from Mr. CANDY Frizinghall, Wednesday, September 26th, 1849. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On the seventh, he returned earlier, and with an exultation he could not conceal. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and seventh from Samuel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The city has six interior circuits of walls, and an outer wall which is the seventh. Plato. The Republic.
- The trade that was going on in the ancient world before the sixth or seventh century B.C. was almost entirely a barter trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were in the seventh row of the _tendido_ three. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Compare with this the state of affairs at the end of the seventh century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Early on the seventh morning after he had left his native place, Oliver limped slowly into the little town of Barnet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was known, by the voluntary admission of the owner of the mad-house, that she was received there on the twenty-seventh of July. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typed by Ellie