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SEVENTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seventh mean?
• SEVENTH (noun)
The noun SEVENTH has 3 senses:
1. position seven in a countable series of things
2. one part in seven equal parts
3. the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
Familiarity information: SEVENTH used as a noun is uncommon.
• SEVENTH (adjective)
The adjective SEVENTH has 1 sense:
1. coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
Familiarity information: SEVENTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position seven in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
Derivation:
seventh (coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One part in seven equal parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
one-seventh; seventh
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
Synonyms:
7th; seventh
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Derivation:
seventh (position seven in a countable series of things)
Context examples
Sometimes when Jupiter is in the seventh house, your partner will siphon the good fortune and money from you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It is caused by damage to the seventh cranial nerve.
(Congenital Facial Nerve Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)
A sympathetic ganglion located at the seventh cervical vertebral level.
(Inferior Cervical Ganglion, NCI Thesaurus)
The designation for each member of the seventh largest human autosomal chromosome pair.
(Chromosome 7, NCI Thesaurus)
The seventh, “Who has been drinking my wine?”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
One of the two pairs in the seventh group (or group G) of human chromosomes according to the current classification for humans.
(Chromosome 21, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
In addition to the one done in the first three months, another test should be done around the seventh month of pregnancy.
(Brazil: Babies of mothers infected with Zika will be monitored for up to 3 years, Agência Brasil)
It most often affects males in their sixth and seventh decades of life.
(Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The seventh of the seven cervical vertebrae.
(C7 Vertebra, NCI Thesaurus)
The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated — scientists believe it could be an icy, "snowball-like" world, but further observations are needed.
(NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star, NASA)
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