seventh

1. not comparableThe ordinal form of the number seven.

   Intel usually brings out a new generation of processors every 12-18 months, and the Core range is now in its seventh generation.

   2017 January 19, Jack Schofield, “How can I tell if a PC processor is any good?”, in The Guardian

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   Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters?

   1644, Dudley Diggs, The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking up Armes against their Soveraigne, in what Case ſoever, page 158

   [H]e, a lollard indeed over his elbovv-cuſhion, in almoſt the ſeaventh part of 40. or 50. years teaches them ſcarce half the principles of religion; and his ſheep oft-times ſit the vvhile to as little purpoſe of benifiting as the ſheep in thir pues at Smithfield; […]

   1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC, pages 57–58

   [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.

   1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86

   Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.

   2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2025, page 21

   Synonyms: 7th, 7ᵗʰ, VIIth, VII

plural sevenths

1. The person or thing in the seventh position.

   He departs with the significant announcement that he will post at the gates six defenders, with himself as the seventh.

   1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “V. The Seven Against Thebes”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 136

2. One of seven equal parts of a whole.
3. entertainmentA tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.