- 7
- There are seven cookies left.
- seven of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Ten people were invited but only seven turned up.
- Can you lend me seven dollars?
- a seven-month contract
- Look at page seven.
- Seven and two is nine.
- Two sevens are fourteen.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a seven?
- The bulbs are planted in fives or sevens (= groups of five or seven).
- We moved to America when I was seven (= seven years old).
- Shall we meet at seven (= at seven o'clock), then?
Word OriginOld English seofon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeven and German sieben, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin septem and Greek hepta.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See seven in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee seven in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishat sixes and sevens
- (informal) in a confused state; not well organized
- I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
the seven-year itch
- (informal, humorous) the desire for new sexual experience that is thought to be felt after seven years of marriage
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