'Seventh' definitions:
Definition of 'seventh'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position [syn: seventh, 7th]
noun
Position seven in a countable series of things
noun
One part in seven equal parts [syn: one-seventh, seventh]
noun
The musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
Definition of 'Seventh'
From: GCIDE
- Seventh \Sev"enth\, n.
- 1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mus.) (a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale. (b) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Seventh'
From: GCIDE
- Seventh \Sev"enth\, a. [From Seven: cf. AS. seofo[eth]a.]
- 1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. [1913 Webster]
- On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part. [1913 Webster]
- Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday.
- Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'seventh'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- consecutive intervals,
- degree,
- diapason,
- diatessaron,
- diatonic interval,
- diatonic semitone,
- enharmonic diesis,
- enharmonic interval,
- fifth,
- fourth,
- half step,
- halftone,
- heptadic,
- heptagonal,
- heptahedral,
- heptamerous,
- heptangular,
- interval,
- less semitone,
- melodic interval,
- note,
- octave,
- parallel octaves,
- second,
- semitone,
- septempartite,
- septenary,
- septimal,
- septuple,
- sevenfold,
- sixth,
- step,
- third,
- tone,
- unison interval,
- whole step