I. ˈsevən, ˈsev ə m, ˈseb ə m adjective
Etymology: Middle English, adjective & pron., from Old English seofon; akin to Old High German & Gothic sibun seven, Old Norse sjau, Latin septem, Greek hepta, Sanskrit sapta
: being one more than six in number
seven years
— see number table
II. pronoun, plural in construction
Etymology: Middle English
: seven countable persons or things not specified but under consideration and being enumerated
seven are here
seven were found
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from seven, adjective & pron.
1. : one more than six
2.
a. : seven units or objects
a total of seven
b. : a group or set of seven
arranged by sevens
3.
a. : the numerable quantity symbolized by the arabic numeral 7
b. : the figure 7
4. : seven o'clock — compare bell table, time illustration
5. : a score in a dice game made by throwing with usually two dice any combination of numbers that totals seven (as 4 and 3, 5 and 2, 6 and 1)
has great luck throwing sevens
— see craps
6. : the seventh in a set or series: as
a. : a playing card marked to show that it is seventh in a suit
b. : an article of clothing of the seventh size
wears a seven
c. : the rower behind the stroke in an 8-oared boat
is a strong seven on the crew
7. : something having as an essential feature seven units or members ; especially : an English trochaic meter with seven syllables to the line and typically four lines to the stanza — usually used in plural
a poem in sevens
IV. intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to cast a seven in craps
the man sevened — A.B.Guthrie
— often used with out
has just sevened out with the dice — Florabel Muir