sevenfold
English
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| Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventh Latinate ordinal: septenary Adverbial: seven times Multiplier: sevenfold Latinate multiplier: septuple Distributive: septuply Group collective: sevensome Multipart collective: septuplet Greek or Latinate collective: heptad Greek collective prefix: hepta- Latinate collective prefix: septua- Fractional: seventh Elemental: septuple Greek prefix: ebdomo- Number of musicians: septet Number of years: septennium | ||
Etymology
From Middle English sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven + -fold.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛvənfoʊld/
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Adjective
sevenfold (not comparable)
- Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
- 1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century expansion”, in Modern Railways, pages 189–190:
- Long-distance rail travel is increasing despite a similar sevenfold rise in ownership of private transport throughout the country.
- Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
- 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120:
- Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!
Translations
multiplied by seven (adjective)
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having seven parts (adjective)
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Adverb
sevenfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of seven.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:15:
- And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Translations
by a factor of seven (adverb)
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References
- “sevenfold”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sevenfold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
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