seven
- numeral
- /ˈsɛvən/
- He read seven books during his summer vacation.
- seven years
- age seven
- seven days
Well, Blue Bloods is going on for seven years, so not lately.
- Well, Blue Bloods is going on for seven years, so not lately.
- Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison.
- So I'm going to go from the the C minor seven, OK, Phrygian.
- I would have been fine, but I'd spent seven years locked up.
- Sam passed about six or seven months ago in Los Angeles.
- Anyway, my best, my best friend went away for seven years, my best best friend.
- Oh, God, me and seven authentic African pygmy dancers.
Examples
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Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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She bought seven apples from the market.
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That took about seven years from start to finish.
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So I have seven kids, all went to college.
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Now, let's Fast forward seven years to where we are today.
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The launch date is expected to be at least seven years later than the date set in 2004.
Academic text (2011) -
Z spends an average of seven hours a day on their phones.
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Seven local outlets have picked up the story of the blast.
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The other mentor was an African American male with seven years of experience as an eighth-grade science teacher.
Academic text (2011) -
There are seven days in a week.
Synonyms
A Roman numeral that stands for the number seven
A group of seven things or the number seven
A group of seven things or the number seven
Idioms
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
- Archaic
A way to say eighty-seven years ago, used by Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Gettysburg Address
Compounds
Seven famous ancient buildings like the Great Pyramid and Hanging Gardens
A major war from 1756 to 1763 between many European countries with battles in Europe and North America
- Specialized
A golf club with a slanted face for hitting high shots toward the green
Surface Forms
Etymology
Seven comes from a very old number word found in Latin septem and Greek hepta, and you can see it in September, which once meant the 'seventh month'. So seven is the number '7'.