seven

From English seven.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛvən][1]

seven

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.

   Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)

• Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: VII
• sev'n

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).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvn̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvən/

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• (casually also) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛbm̩]
• Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɛvən
• Hyphenation: se‧ven

seven

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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:

     1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
     2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
     3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
     4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
     5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

     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.

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)

• four score and seven years ago

• seventh

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

• Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés

From English seven.

seven

1. seven

seven

1. courteous

seven

1. Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

Borrowed from English seven.

seven

1. seven

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛːvən/

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.

sēven

1. seven

• Dutch: zeven
• Limburgish: zeve
• Zealandic: zeven

From sēve +‎ -en.

sēven

1. to sift, to sieve

• Dutch: zeven

• “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

From Old English seofon. Forms with final /ə/ are from Old English inflected forms.

• ceven, seofen, seoven, sevene, sevyn, sewyn
• zeven, zeve (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːvən(ə)/, /ˈsɛvən(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈsøːvən(ə)/, /ˈsœvən(ə)/

seven

1. seven
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, page 123r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþ

     And the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on […]

• English: seven
• Middle Scots: sevin, sewin
  • Scots: seiven, seeven
• Yola: zeven

• “sē̆ven, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

seven

1. Alternative form of sweven

seven

1. Alternative form of seiven

From English seven.

seven

1. seven

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

• IPA^(key): [se.ˈʋæn]
• Hyphenation: sev‧en

seven

1. loving, affectionate

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek
• sevecen

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

• sevmeyen