seventh

Etymology

From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô.

adj

1. The ordinal form of the number seven.
   Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters? 1644, Dudley Diggs, The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking up Armes against their Soveraigne, in what Case ſoever, page 158

noun

1. The person or thing in the seventh position.
2. One of seven equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.