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SEVENTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
interval; musical interval (the difference in pitch between two notes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One part in seven equal parts
Synonyms:
one-seventh; seventh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Position seven in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("seventh" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
Derivation:
seventh (coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
Synonyms:
7th; seventh
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Derivation:
seventh (position seven in a countable series of things)
Context examples:
It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
The medial margin of the thorax created by the seventh to tenth rib.
(Costal Arch, NCI Thesaurus)
Earlier this year, Zealandia was confirmed as Earth's seventh continent, but little is known about it because it's submerged more than a kilometer (two-thirds of a mile) under the sea.
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve).
(Facial Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
A very rare congenital syndrome affecting the sixth and seventh cranial nerves.
(Mobius Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
I kissed Miss Mills's hand; and we all seemed, to my thinking, to go straight up to the seventh heaven.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At the end of the seventh week, without intending it, too weak to resist, he drifted down to the village with Joe and drowned life and found life until Monday morning.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A disorder characterized by involvement of the facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve).
(Facial Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
The seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
(July, NCI Thesaurus)
