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adjective

Seven adj. One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.

Seven sciences. See the Note under Science, n., 4.

Seven stars (Astron.), the Pleiades.

Seven wonders of the world. See under Wonders.

Seven-year apple (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub (Genipa clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit.

Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning-glory.

noun

Seven n.

The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects. "Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, Game sevens and pairs."

A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.

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"Seven" Quotes from Famous Books

... most considerable." The botanist Leschenalt had found over 600 species of plants which were believed to be new to science; and he eulogised the zoological work of Peron, who had succeeded in bringing to France alive seven kinds of kangaroo, an emu, a lyre-bird and several black swan. Altogether, 18,414 specimens of Australian fauna had been collected, comprised in 3872 species, of which 2592 species were new to the museum. The men of science had "succeeded ...

— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... who "ran in" to sit with Mrs. Peniston when Lily dined out too continuously; who played bezique, picked up dropped stitches, read out the deaths from the Times, and sincerely admired the purple satin drawing-room curtains, the Dying Gladiator in the window, and the seven-by-five painting of Niagara which represented the one artistic excess ...

— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton

... the original seven stood in the immediate vicinity. The glances of the two workers took them all in; then they looked at each ...

— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden

... signifies a distinction in the divine nature, then the unity of God remains. As so often happens in doctrinal contention, he and his critics used the same words with different definitions. The consequence was that the bishop of London had him put in prison. He was restrained for seven months in ...

— William Penn • George Hodges

... the Legend proper, and to its most important and most interesting characteristics, to its working up, to that extraordinary development which in a bare half-century (and half a century, though a long time now, was a very short one seven hundred years ago) evolved almost a whole library of romance from the scanty faits et gestes of Arthur as given by Geoffrey,—then I must confess that I can see no evidence of Celtic forces or sources having played any great part in the matter. If Caradoc of Lancarvan wrote the Vita Gildae—and ...

— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury

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