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# seven

«seven» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 7, one more than six and one less than eight** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (seven)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Seven is the number 7, one more than six and one less than eight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#m1)

2) A week is 7 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#m2)

3) Seven o'clock is a time on the clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things; seven times table; seven is an odd number and a prime number. Everyday: «seven days» = a week; seven colours of the rainbow; seven continents. Stories: seven dwarfs, seven seas, seven wonders of the world.

### examples

- There are seven days in a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x1)
- She has seven apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x2)
- Seven children share 21 sweets, so each gets 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x3)
- Seven times eight is 56. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x4)
- The rainbow has seven colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x5)
- There are seven continents on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x6)
- School starts at seven forty-five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x7)
- Snow White lived with the seven dwarfs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x8)
- But Legless threw it seven miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/#x9)

### note

A number written as a word; read it as 7. Seven is odd and prime. Trap: «a week» may hide the number 7. Do not confuse seven (7) with seventh (7th, or one of seven parts).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seven» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seven/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.