sevenfold

adjective

sev·​en·​fold ˈse-vən-ˌfōld 

ˈse-bᵊm-

1

: having seven units or members

2

: being seven times as great or as many

sevenfold adverb

Examples of sevenfold in a Sentence

There has been a sevenfold increase in membership in the past year.

Recent Examples on the Web

Americans’ wealth is the result in part of a soaring stock market (up more than sevenfold from the bottom in 2009) and increasing real estate values (up 125% since 2009). —Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025

Last year, five governors led by Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro began pushing back against power prices set by the mid-Atlantic grid operator, PJM Interconnection, after that amount spiked nearly sevenfold. —Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025

Sales of zero-emission vehicles in Oregon are surging dramatically, up sevenfold since 2015. —oregonlive, 4 June 2023

The ruling marks the latest development in the Biden administration’s attempt to adopt a more than sevenfold increase in a metric called the social cost of carbon, which assigns a dollar value to the harm caused by greenhouse-gas emissions. —Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for sevenfold

• copyhold
• decontrolled
• hundredfold
• manifold
• marigold
• oversold
• petioled
• stranglehold
• subthreshold
• thousandfold
• uncontrolled
• ahold