seventh

Noun · Adjective
US[sev-uhnth]/ˈsɛvənθ/2 syllables
Synonyms: one-seventh7th

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in positionSynonyms: 7thOpposite cardinalSimilar ordinal

Noun (3)

  1. position seven in a countable series of thingsType of rank
  2. one part in seven equal partsSynonyms: one-seventhType of common fraction, simple fraction
  3. the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from itType of interval, musical interval
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Translations

Adjective ordinal form of the number seven

Spanish
séptimo
French
septième
German
siebte
Italian
settimo
Portuguese
sétimo
Turkish
yedinci
Russian
седьмо́й sedʹmój
Arabic
سَابِع sābiʕ
Chinese
第七 dìqī
Japanese
七番目 nanabanme
34 more languages
Dutch
zevende
Polish
siódmy
Swedish
sjunde
Greek
έβδομος évdomos
Korean
일곱째 ilgopjjae
Indonesian
ketujuh
Vietnamese
thứ bảy
Hungarian
hetedik
Portuguese (PT)
sétimo
Chinese (Trad.)
第七 dìqī
Albanian
i shtatë
Breton
seizhvet
Catalan
setè
Czech
sedmý
Danish
syvende
Esperanto
sepa
Estonian
seitsmes
Finnish
seitsemäs
Georgian
მეშვიდე mešvide
Hebrew
שביעי sh'vi'í
Icelandic
sjöundi
Kurdish
heftem
Latvian
septītais
Lithuanian
septintas
Malagasy
fahafito
Norwegian
sjuende
Romanian
al șaptelea
Scottish Gaelic
seachdamh
Serbo-Croatian
sedmi
Slovak
siedmy
Slovenian
sedmi
Swahili
ya saba
Yiddish
זיבעט zibet

Noun one of seven equal parts of a whole

French
septième
Italian
settimo
Portuguese
sétimo
Russian
седьма́я часть sedʹmája častʹ
Arabic
سُبْع subʕ
Swedish
sjundedel
Hungarian
heted
Portuguese (PT)
sétimo
Catalan
setè
Czech
sedmina
5 more languages
Esperanto
sepono
Georgian
მეშვიდედი mešvidedi
Romanian
șeptime
Yiddish
זיבעטל zibetl

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sev′enth adjective

Origin: From Seven: cf. AS. seofoða.

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.


Sev′enth noun

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. Music (a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale. (b) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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