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Definition of Seventh

1. Adjective. Coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position.

2. Noun. Position seven in a countable series of things.

3. Noun. One part in seven equal parts.

4. Noun. The musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it.

Definition of Seventh

1. a. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

2. n. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

Definition of Seventh

1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number seven. ¹

2. Noun. The person or thing in the seventh position. ¹

3. Noun. One of seven equal parts of a whole. ¹

4. Noun. (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seventh

1. one of seven equal parts [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventh

sevens sevenscore sevensies sevensome sevensomes seventeen seventeen-year locust seventeen hundred seventeenfold seventeenish

seventeenness seventeenpence seventeens seventeenth seventeenths seventh (current term) seventh art seventh chord seventh chords seventh cranial nerve

seventh grade seventh grades seventh heaven seventh inning stretch seventh sense seventhly sevenths seventies seventieth seventieths

Literary usage of Seventh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Harmony: Founded on Key Relationship, by Means of which a by Hugh Archibald Clarke, Homer Albert Norris (1903)
"A dominant seventh chord may resolve to the dominant seventh of either of the five nearest-related keys. The two notes requiring resolution should conform ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"seventh. The intervals which contain seven notée comprise some of the most important ... Of these the most important is the Dominant seventh, as at (c), ..."

3. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"THE ARISTOCRACY IN THE seventh CENTURY Early in the seventh century, then, the Athenian republic was an The aris- aristocracy, and the executive was in the ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"THE MANAGEMENT OF DELIVERY PRIOR TO THE seventh LUNAR MONTH. BY WILLIAM H. PARISH, MD [Read June 13, 1888.] IN the management of delivery prior to the ..."

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