Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of seven offspring delivered at a single birth.
- noun A group or combination of seven associated by common properties or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
septimole . Compare triplet, decimole, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of a group of
seven babies born at the samebirth .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The story - about septuplet sisters conceived via genetic manipulation - could have been told in a thousand terrible ways, but she's managing to make it sing.
Sit. Fidget. Jump up and get out in the world. Dave Eggers 2010
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In December 1997, Newsweek drastically altered a portrait featuring septuplet parents Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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In December 1997, Newsweek drastically altered a portrait featuring septuplet parents Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey.
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And the next time a septuplet happens, the local news stations all around the country shouldn ` t be doing these mindless, fantastic, glowing profiles that encourage people like this and then, lead us in the situation that we are in now.
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Come to think of it, the Greeks, the Aboriginals, and the Plains Indians all lived continents apart and all, independently, looked at the same septuplet knot of the Pleiades and believed them to be seven young girls running away from something that threatened to hurt them.
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004
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Indisputably the best of the septuplet of Roberts, Holding, Garner, himself, Walsh, Bishop and Ambrose for mine.
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Most of my items are in pairs, but there are a few triplets and one sextuplet -- or septuplet, if I am granted a Scottish pronunciation given in the OED.
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