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Adjective: seventh  se-vunth
  1. Coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
    - 7th
Noun: seventh  se-vunth
  1. Position seven in a countable series of things
    "The seventh day of the week is Sunday"
     
  2. One part in seven equal parts
    "He spent one-seventh of his day exercising";
    - one-seventh
     
  3. The musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
    "The jazz chord included a flatted seventh for extra colour"

Derived forms: sevenths

See also: ordinal

Type of: common fraction, interval, musical interval, rank, simple fraction, vulgar fraction [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Seventh