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seventh

Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvnθ/

The English word “seventh” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. The ordinal form of the number seven.

noun

  1. The person or thing in the seventh position.
  2. One of seven equal parts of a whole.
  3. A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.

Etymology

From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th.

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