Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 6 + 1.
- noun The seventh in a set or sequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- One more than six; the sum of three and four: a cardinal numeral.
- (b ) The constellation Ursa Major.
- The Pleiades.
- noun The number greater by one than six; a group of things amounting to this number.
- noun The symbol representing this number, as 7, or VII, or vii.
- noun plural In Eng. hymnology, a species of trochaic meter having seven syllables to the line, and properly four lines to the stanza. Sevens double (7s, D.) has eight lines, and other varieties are marked by the number of lines, as 7s, 6l, or 7s, 3l.
- noun A playing-card with seven spots or pips on it.
- noun To set in confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective One more than six; six and one added.
- adjective See the Note under
Science , n., 4. - adjective (Astron.) the Pleiades.
- adjective See under
Wonders . - adjective (Bot.) a rubiaceous shrub (
Genipa clusiifolia ) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. - adjective (Bot.) a tropical climbing plant (
Ipomœa tuberosa ) related to the morning-glory. - noun The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cardinal A numerical
value equal to7 ; thenumber occurring aftersix and beforeeight . - noun The
digit /figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. - noun countable, card games A
card bearing sevenpips .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being one more than six
- noun one of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Since it is necessary that seven plus two is greater than seven, when the number nine is referred to as ˜seven plus two™ it is essentially greater than seven.
Essential vs. Accidental Properties Robertson, Teresa 2008
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Whereupon the Bishop wrote that he "felt persuaded that there were not above seven of any note who did not conform themselves" to the church ordinances; while the Vicar said he "did not know of _half seven_ of any note but do the like."
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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A farthing a day is seven shillings a year, answered the M.P.; seven shillings a year is the interest of seven guineas.
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He ran him for seven miles -- _seven miles_, mind you!
The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916
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These “seven nights,” however, are frequently interpreted, figuratively, to mean _seven years_, a rendering which often serves to relieve the shaman from a very embarrassing position.
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We mustered seven hands all told, six seamen and myself -- _seven only out of our entire crew_!
The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886
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These “seven nights,” however, are frequently interpreted, figuratively, to mean _seven years_, a rendering which often serves to relieve the shaman from a very embarrassing position.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Through the seven planetary spheres, represented by the Mystic Ladder of the Mithriac Initiations, and it by that which Jacob saw in his dream (not with _three_, but with _seven_ steps), the Souls, emanating from the Deity, descended, to be united to their human bodies; and through those seven spheres they must re-ascend, to return to their origin and home in the bosom of the Deity.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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But a triple iteration of the number 7, simply saying '_Seven seven seven_,' would be even more rememberable.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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'_Seven seven seven_' is remembered even _more_ easily. [
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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