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seven

seven

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The number after six and before eight
  • numeral
  • /ˈsɛvən/
translation icon : siete
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison.

  • She bought seven apples from the market.

  • That took about seven years from start to finish.

  • So I have seven kids, all went to college.

  • Now, let's Fast forward seven years to where we are today.

  • 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.

  • Seven local outlets have picked up the story of the blast.

  • 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

VII
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30 1.0

A Roman numeral that stands for the number seven

is the word form rather than a written numeral
vii
vsseven
4 1.0

A Roman number that means seven

is the word form rather than a written numeral
septenary
vsseven
9.9

A group of seven things or the number seven

is the common spoken form rather than a formal collective
heptad
vsseven
9.5

A group of seven things or the number seven

is the common spoken form rather than a collective term

Idioms

2 3.4

Happens all the time without stopping

To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail

A way to say eighty-seven years ago, used by Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Gettysburg Address

Always ready to work or help, day and night

Compounds

103 1.0

Lasts for seven days

5 3.4

All the seas and oceans of the world that people can travel by ship

Seven famous ancient buildings like the Great Pyramid and Hanging Gardens

A famous list of seven great buildings from ancient times

A major war from 1756 to 1763 between many European countries with battles in Europe and North America

seven iron
  • Specialized
1 5.9

A golf club with a slanted face for hitting high shots toward the green

Seven hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built

A playing card in a deck that shows seven dots

A gun that holds seven bullets and fires them without reloading

9.9

A card game where the first player to reach seven points wins

Surface Forms

seven cardinal word
7 cardinal digit

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'.