seven

IPA: sˈɛvʌn

The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
(countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
A river in North Yorkshire, England that flows through Rosedale to join the Rye.

Examples of "seven" in Sentences

He ran him for seven miles -- _seven miles_, mind you!
'_Seven seven seven_' is remembered even _more_ easily. [
We mustered seven hands all told, six seamen and myself -- _seven only out of our entire crew_!
But a triple iteration of the number 7, simply saying '_Seven seven seven_,' would be even more rememberable.
A farthing a day is seven shillings a year, answered the M.P.; seven shillings a year is the interest of seven guineas.
Since it is necessary that seven plus two is greater than seven, when the number nine is referred to as ˜seven plus two™ it is essentially greater than seven.
These “seven nights,” however, are frequently interpreted, figuratively, to mean _seven years_, a rendering which often serves to relieve the shaman from a very embarrassing position.
Whereupon the Bishop wrote that he "felt persuaded that there were not above seven of any note who did not conform themselves" to the church ordinances; while the Vicar said he "did not know of _half seven_ of any note but do the like."
Through the seven planetary spheres, represented by the Mystic Ladder of the Mithriac Initiations, and it by that which Jacob saw in his dream (not with _three_, but with _seven_ steps), the Souls, emanating from the Deity, descended, to be united to their human bodies; and through those seven spheres they must re-ascend, to return to their origin and home in the bosom of the Deity.