seven
IPA: sˈɛvʌn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "seven" in Sentences
- The cantata is in seven movements.
- I have seven pens and five pencils.
- Diligence is one of the seven virtues.
- The five out of the seven that survived to adulthood.
- They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits.
- He ran him for seven miles -- _seven miles_, mind you!
- '_Seven seven seven_' is remembered even _more_ easily. [
- Only seven of the eight justices of the Court heard the appeal.
- It was launched by seven of the eight distilleries in the region.
- Austerities start seven days or nine days prior to the day of the dance.
- The pilots recovered from the dive and seven of the nine crewmen parachuted.
- Patients go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for an average of seven to eight years.
- 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.
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