English Online Dictionary. What means seven? What does seven mean?
Translingual
Alternative forms
- Seven, SEVEN
Etymology
Borrowed from English seven.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛvən]
Noun
seven
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.
- Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)
References
English
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: VII
- sev'n
Etymology
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 सप्तन् (saptán).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛvn̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛvən/
- (casually also) IPA(key): [ˈsɛbm̩]
- Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɛvən
- Hyphenation: se‧ven
Numeral
seven
- A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
Usage notes
Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː
- Son & moyne set in the heuen,
Witħ starnes, & the planettys seuen,
[...] (The Creation in The Towneley Plays, ll. 50–51)
Derived terms
- four score and seven years ago
Related terms
- seventh
Translations
See also
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Noun
seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)
- The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
- (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés
Bislama
Etymology
From English seven.
Numeral
seven
- seven
Breton
Adjective
seven
- courteous
Dutch Low Saxon
Numeral
seven
- Alternative form of zeuven (seven)
Fanagalo
Etymology
Borrowed from English seven.
Numeral
seven
- seven
Middle Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɛːvən/
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.
Numeral
sēven
- seven
Descendants
- Dutch: zeven
- Limburgish: zeve
- Zealandic: zeven
Etymology 2
From sēve + -en.
Verb
sēven
- to sift, to sieve
Inflection
Descendants
- Dutch: zeven
Further reading
- “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English seofon. Forms with final /ə/ are from Old English inflected forms.
Alternative forms
- ceven, seofen, seoven, sevene, sevyn, sewyn
- zeven, zeve (Kent)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛːvən(ə)/, /ˈsɛvən(ə)/
- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /ˈsøːvən(ə)/, /ˈsœvən(ə)/
Numeral
seven
- seven
Related terms
Descendants
- English: seven
- Middle Scots: sevin, sewin
- Scots: seiven, seeven
- Yola: zeven
References
- “sē̆ven, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
seven
- Alternative form of sweven
Scots
Numeral
seven
- Alternative form of seiven
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English seven.
Numeral
seven
- seven
Usage notes
Used when counting; see also sevenpela.
Coordinate terms
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [se.ˈʋæn]
- Hyphenation: sev‧en
Adjective
seven
- loving, affectionate
Related terms
- sevgi
- sevilen
- sevmek
- sevecen
Noun
seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)
- lover (somebody who loves)
Declension
Antonyms
- sevmeyen