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seven

numeralnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • Canada//ˈsɛvən//
  • Canada/[ˈsɛvən] ~ /ˈsɛvn̩//
  • Australia//ˈsevən//
  • Australia/[ˈsevən] ~ [ˈse̞vən] ~ [ˈsevn̩] ~ [ˈse̞vn̩]/

A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.

numeral

  1. 1

    A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.

    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.

    The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.

Etymology

PIE word *septḿ̥ 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 सप्त (saptá).

noun

  1. 1

    The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

    He wrote three sevens on the paper.

  2. 2

    A card bearing seven pips.

  3. 3

    slangThe soft drink 7 Up.

    a whisky and seven

Forms

plural
sevens
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).