Definitions for sevens

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sevens sev·en

Spelling: [sev-uh n]

IPA: /ˈsɛv ən/

Sevens is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in sevens (eenssv).

Definitions for sevens

noun

1. a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
2. a symbol for this number, as 7 or VII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. a playing card with seven pips.
5. sevens, (used with a singular verb) fan-tan (def 1).
6. Also, fan tan. Also called parliament, sevens. Cards. a game in which the players play their sevens and other cards forming sequences in the same suits as their sevens, the winner being the player who first runs out of cards.
7. a Chinese gambling game in which a pile of coins, counters, or objects is placed under a bowl and bets are made on what the remainder will be after they have been counted off in fours.

adjective

1. amounting to seven in number.

Verb phrases

1. seven out. crap2 (def 3a).

Origin of sevens

before 900; Middle English seoven(e), seofne, seven, Old English seofon; cognate with German sieben, Gothic sibun; akin to Old Irish secht, Welsh saith, Latin septem, Greek heptá, Polish sied

Examples for sevens

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Even the We Are sevens seemed remote and indistinct in her tired brain.

The world wants looking to, or 'tis all sixes and sevens wi' us.'

This outburst from Sarah the placid rather startled the We are sevens.

I know if the We Are sevens were here they would send heaps of love.

I 've called it a seven, because M. Marsac usually writes his sevens in this way.

I want the boys and the We are sevens on the little rustic bridge.

"Aces and sevens, gamblers," I grinned, reaching for the pot.

The high tension of the We Are sevens relaxed for a brief second.

If they had not been miraculously guided, they would not have come by twos and sevens.