seventh

noun

sev·​enth ˈse-vən(t)th 

ˈse-bᵊm(t)th

plural sevenths ˈse-vən(t)s 

-vən(t)ths;

ˈse-bᵊm(t)s,

-bᵊm(t)ths

1

: one that is number seven in a series

I'll be leaving on the seventh.

The batter hit a home run in the seventh.

see Table of Numbers

2

: one of seven equal parts of something

… West Virginia, which produces a seventh of the country's coal …

—David M. Shribman

3

a

: a musical interval embracing seven diatonic degrees

b

: a tone at this interval

specifically : leading tone

c

: the harmonic combination of two tones a seventh apart

seventh adjective or adverb

the writer's seventh book

She finished seventh in the race.

Examples of seventh in a Sentence

Only about a seventh of the town voted for her.

Recent Examples on the Web

Emmet Sheehan stumbled in the seventh, allowing a run to put the Phillies ahead 1-0 and cutting his night short after one inning rather than the multiples the Dodgers were hoping to get. —Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025

The Phillies took a 1-0, sixth-inning lead against the Dodgers in Game 4, but the game went into extra innings after trade deadline acquisition Jhoan Duran walked home a run in the bottom of the seventh. —Acoloma, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025

Philadelphia drew first blood in the top of the seventh. —Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025

But the thirty-seventh President looks like a model of restraint when compared with the forty-seventh, and his supposedly incendiary commentary anodyne by contrast to what emanates daily from the current occupant of the White House. —Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing seventh

• in seventh heaven
• seventh chord
• seventh heaven
• the seventh-inning stretch

Rhymes for seventh

• eleventh

Kids Definition

seventh

noun

sev·​enth ˈsev-ən(t)th 

1

: one that is number seven in a series see number

2

: the difference in pitch between the first tone and the seventh tone of a scale

seventh adjective or adverb