seventh
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
Noun (3)
- position seven in a countable series of thingsType of rank
- one part in seven equal partsSynonyms: one-seventhType of common fraction, simple fraction
- 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
- Welsh
- seithfed
- 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
- Finnish
- seitsemäsosa
- 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)
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.
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