Dictionary Definition
seventh adj : coming next after the sixth and
just before the eighth in position [syn: 7th]
Noun
1 position seven in a countable series of
things
2 a seventh part [syn: one-seventh]
3 the musical interval between one note and
another seven notes away from it
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /sɛvnθ/, /sEvnT/
Adjective
seventh- The ordinal form of the number seven.
Abbreviation
7th, 7th; (in names of monarchs and popes) VIITranslations
- Breton: seizhvet
- Catalan: setè (abbreviation 7è)
- Crimean Tatar: yedıncı
- Czech: sedmý (abbreviation 7.)
- Danish: syvende (abbreviation 7.)
- Dutch: zevende (abbreviations 7de, 7e)
- Esperanto: sepa
- Finnish: seitsemäs
- French: septième (before the noun) (abbreviation 7ème); (in names of monarchs and popes) sept (after the name) (abbreviation VII)
- West Frisian: sânde (abbreviation 7e)
- German: siebente (abbreviation 7.)
- Indonesian: ketujuh (abbreviation ke-7)
- Interlingua: septime (abbreviation 7e)
- Irish: seachtú (abbreviation 7ú)
- Italian: settimo , settima (before the noun) (abbreviations 7º , 7ª ); (in names of monarchs and popes) settimo , settima (after the name) (abbreviation VII)
- Japanese: ７番目 (ななばんめ, nanaban-me; しちばんめ, shichiban-me)
- Lithuanian: septintas, septinta
- Maltese: is-seba'
- Manchu: (nadaci)
- Manx: shiaghtoo (abbreviation 7oo)
- Polish: siódmy , siódma , siódme (abbreviation 7.)
- Portuguese: sétimo , sétima (abbreviations 7º , 7ª )
- Romanian: al şaptelea , a şaptea
- Russian: седьмой (abbreviation 7-ой)
- Spanish: séptimo , séptima (abbreviations 7º , 7ª )
- Swedish: sjunde (abbreviation 7:e)
- Tatar: җиденче
- Turkish: yedinci (abbreviation 7.)
- Vietnamese: thứ bảy
- Welsh: seithfed (abbreviation 7ed)
Noun
seventh- The person or thing in the seventh position.
- One of seven equal parts of a whole.
Translations
- Finnish: seitsemäs (1), seitsemäsosa (2), seitsemännes (2)
- French: septième m|f (1), septième (2)
- Interlingua: septimo , septima (1); septimo (2)
- Italian: settimo , settima (1), settimo (2)
- Lithuanian: septintas, septinta (1); septintadalis (2)
- Romanian: cel al şaptelea , cea a şaptea
- Portuguese: sétimo , sétima (1); sétimo (2)
- Swedish: sjua (1), sjundedel (2)
Extensive Definition
Seventh may refer to:
In music:
- Diminished seventh, a chromatically reduced minor seventh interval
- Major seventh, the larger of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
- Minor seventh, the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
- Seventh (tonal degree), the leading tone or subtonic and the chord built on the leading tone
- Seventh chord, a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root
In Star Trek:
- "The Seventh" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
See also
seventh in French: Septième
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
consecutive intervals, degree, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic
interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic
interval, fifth, fourth, half step, halftone, heptadic, heptagonal, heptahedral, heptamerous, heptangular, interval, less semitone,
melodic interval, note,
octave, parallel octaves,
second, semitone, septempartite, septenary, septimal, septuple, sevenfold, sixth, step, third, tone, unison interval, whole
step