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# seventh

«seventh» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 7 in order, after the sixth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, noun (seventh, sevenths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Seventh means number 7 in order, after the sixth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#m1)

2) A seventh is one of seven equal parts of a whole, written 1/7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order word (7th day, 7th grade) or a fraction: a seventh of 28 is 4. Everyday: seventh grade, the seventh floor, «in seventh heaven» means very happy.

### examples

- She is in the seventh grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x1)
- On the seventh day he rested. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x2)
- A seventh of 28 is 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x3)
- Two sevenths of the class are boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x4)
- Our flat is on the seventh floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x5)
- He finished seventh out of twenty runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x6)
- When she got the puppy she was in seventh heaven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x7)
- "I, too, will try a seventh time!" cried Bruce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventh/#x8)

### note

Written 7th. As order it points to an item; as a fraction it means divide by 7: a seventh of n = n ÷ 7. Trap: «seventh» order is not «seven» things. Plural «sevenths» is for fractions.

### In the corpora

- [A school backpack should weigh no more than about a tenth to a seventh of your body weight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/19/)
- [On the seventh day God rested and blessed the day; this is the root of the weekly day of rest, the Sabbath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/11/)
- [Seventh-day Adventists and some other Christians worship on Saturday instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/19/)
- [And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.199/)
- [Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.368/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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