seven
Translingual edit
Signal flag for the digit 7 |
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Noun edit
seven
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.
- Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)
References edit
- ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, archived from the original on 2019-03-31, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
English edit
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← 6 | 7 | 8 → |
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Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventh Latinate ordinal: septenary Adverbial: seven times Multiplier: sevenfold Latinate multiplier: septuple Distributive: septuply Group collective: sevensome Multipart collective: septuplet Greek or Latinate collective: heptad Greek collective prefix: hepta- Latinate collective prefix: septua- Fractional: seventh Elemental: septuple Greek prefix: ebdomo- Number of musicians: septet Number of years: septennium |
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛvn̩/
Audio (RP, male) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛvən/
Audio (GA, female) (file) - (casually also) IPA(key): [ˈsɛbm̩]
- Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -ɛvən
- Hyphenation: se‧ven
Numeral edit
seven
- A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
- The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.
Usage notes edit
Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː
- Son & moyne set in the heuen,
Witħ starnes, & the planettys seuen,
[...] (The Creation in The Towneley Plays, ll. 50–51)
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Noun edit
seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)
- The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
- He wrote three sevens on the paper.
- (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
Derived terms edit
- at six and seven
- at sixes and sevens
- city of seven hills
- dance of the seven veils
- deuce-to-seven lowball
- four score seven years ago
- grade seven
- Group of Seven
- magnificent seven
- number seven
- rugby sevens
- seven and a half
- seven and seven
- seven-arm octopus
- seven arts
- seven bells
- seven card stud
- seven-card stud
- seven come eleven
- seven-day wonder
- seven deadly sins
- seven dirty words
- seven-eighths
- seven eighths
- Sevener/sevener
- sevenfold
- seven-footer
- Seven Hills of Rome
- seven hundred
- seven iron
- seven-layer cake
- seven-layer dip
- seven-layer salad
- seven-league boot
- seven-league boots
- seven-level
- seven-level screwdriver
- seven minutes in heaven
- sevenness
- sevennight
- seven o'clock
- seven out
- sevens
- Seven Sages
- sevenscore
- seven seals
- seven seas
- seven second delay
- seven-segment
- seven shades
- seven-shooter
- Seven Sisters
- Seven Sleepers Day
- sevensome
- seventh
- seven-thirties
- seven-thirty
- seven thousand
- seven-toed Pete
- seven-up
- seven-veil dance
- seven virtues
- Seven Wonders of the World
- seven-year apple
- seven-year itch
- seven-year vine
- triple seven
- twenty-four seven
- unseven
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Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) | ||||||
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ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |
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Cardinal : seven | ||
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seven
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seven
Dutch Low Saxon edit
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seven
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seven
Middle Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.
Numeral edit
sēven
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
sēven
Inflection edit
Weak | ||
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Infinitive | sēven | |
3rd sg. past | — | |
3rd pl. past | — | |
Past participle | — | |
Infinitive | sēven | |
In genitive | sēvens | |
In dative | sēvene | |
Indicative | Present | Past |
1st singular | sēve | — |
2nd singular | sēefs, sēves | — |
3rd singular | sēeft, sēvet | — |
1st plural | sēven | — |
2nd plural | sēeft, sēvet | — |
3rd plural | sēven | — |
Subjunctive | Present | Past |
1st singular | sēve | — |
2nd singular | sēefs, sēves | — |
3rd singular | sēve | — |
1st plural | sēven | — |
2nd plural | sēeft, sēvet | — |
3rd plural | sēven | — |
Imperative | Present | |
Singular | sēef, sēve | |
Plural | sēeft, sēvet | |
Present | Past | |
Participle | sēvende | — |
Descendants edit
- Dutch: zeven
Further reading edit
- “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV
Middle English edit
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Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventhe Multiplier: sevenefold |
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English seofon. Forms with final /ə/ are from Old English inflected forms.
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seven
- seven
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[2], published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, page 123r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- ⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþ
- And the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on […]
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References edit
- “sē̆ven, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
seven
- Alternative form of sweven
Scots edit
Numeral edit
seven
- Alternative form of seiven
Tok Pisin edit
70 | ||
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Cardinal: seven |
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seven
Usage notes edit
Used when counting; see also sevenpela.
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seven
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seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)
- lover (somebody who loves)