# seventh

Pronunciation: US say "SEV-uhnth" /ˈsɛvənθ/; UK say "SEV-nth" /ˈsɛvnθ/

## Adjective

1. Coming after the sixth in a sequence; the ordinal that corresponds to the number seven.
   - Simple: Coming right after the sixth one when you count or put things in order.
   - _The seventh chapter finally explains how the mystery began._
   - _Their seventh attempt at the experiment produced clear results._

## Noun

2. The person or thing occupying the seventh position in a series or ranking.
   - Simple: The one that comes after six others in a row or order.
   - _Among the applicants interviewed that day, he was the seventh._
   - _The judges called the seventh onto the stage for the final round._
3. One of seven equal parts into which a whole is divided.
   - Simple: One part of something that has been split into seven equal pieces.
   - _Each heir received a seventh of the estate._
   - _Roughly three sevenths of the votes were still uncounted._
4. In music, a tone seven degrees above a given tone, the interval between the two tones, or the two tones sounded together.
   - Simple: In music, the note seven steps up from a starting note, or the gap between those two notes.
   - _The composer resolved the seventh down to the sixth in the closing bar._
   - _She struck a major seventh that gave the passage a dreamy color._

## Origin

From Middle English seventhe (also sefte), from Old English seofoþa, going back through Proto-West Germanic *sebundō to Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, which had been lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later put back by analogy with seven, so the word is essentially seven + -th.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/seventh (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).