Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seventh"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Seventh \Sev"enth\, n.
1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six
others.

2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven
equal parts into which anything is divided.

3. (Mus.)
(a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the
scale.
(b) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh
whether major, minor, or diminished.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Seventh \Sev"enth\, a. [From {Seven}: cf. AS. seofo[eth]a.]
1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2.

2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which
anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

{Seventh day}, the seventh day of the week; Saturday.

{Seventh-day Baptists}. See under {Baptist}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

seventh
adj : coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in
position [syn: {7th}]
n 1: position seven in a countable series of things
2: a seventh part [syn: {one-seventh}]
3: the musical interval between one note and another seven
notes away from it


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