seven yearadj.

Brit.

/ˌsɛvn ˈjɪə/,

/ˌsɛvn ˈjəː/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvən ˈjɪ(ə)r/

Forms:

α. Middle English sevene yeres, 1500s–1600s seauen yeares, 1500s–1600s seauen yeeres, 1500s–1600s seauen yeres, 1500s–1600s seuen yeares, 1500s–1600s seuen yeres, 1600s seaven yeares, 1600s seaven years, 1600s seuen yeeres, 1600s seven yeares, 1600s seven yeers, 1600s– seven years, 1800s– seven years'.

β. Middle English sefne ȝere, Middle English seuen ȝeer, Middle English vii ȝer, Middle English vii ȝere, 1500s seuen yeare, 1700s– seven year.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seven adj., year n.

Etymology: Partly (i) < seven adj. + the plural of year n. Partly (ii) < seven adj. + year n.In the form seven years' at α. forms with the second element in the genitive plural.

Consisting of, or lasting for, seven years.See also seven years' bad luck n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years > that lasts a specific number of years

seven yeara1393

quinquenniala1475

triennial1641

septennary1644

biennial1645

septenarian1647

septennial1648

diennial1656

quadrennial1656

trienniated1661

quintennial1687

semi-millenary1728

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 239 Sevene yeres besinesse He leyde, bot for the lachesse Of half a Minut of an houre.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4597 (MED) Þeese oþere seuen woful neet Bitokeneþ seuen ȝeer hongur greet.

1673 J. Ogilby Asia 241/1 Theile King of Ostlohm obtain'd the Victory; and after a seven years peaceable possession thereof, he was also conquer'd by the Great Mogol.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. i. 143 In that seven-years' sleep of his, so much has changed.

1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Apr. 141 The seven-year periods.

1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle xii. 47 The Barcini brothers, who got a seven-year stretch for dope trafficking.

2010 A. V. Mead in C. Walsh & L. André Dear John, I love Jane 107 I ended our seven-year partnership..and we were divorced by December.

Phrases

† this seven years day (also these seven years day): for a long time. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time > for this long time

this long time (also while)a1413

this seven years day1599

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D4 Father if you would seeke this seuen yeares day, You could not find a fitter match for her.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 2 I saw not better sport these seuen yeeres day.

1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. b3^v It hath been mine endeavour this seaven years day, and my usuall Prayer, that I may be able to conclude as M. Bradford the Martyr did.

Compounds

C1. In the names of plants.

seven-year apple n. (also seven years apple) a small evergreen tree of Florida and the Caribbean, Casasia clusiifolia (family Rubiaceae), bearing star-shaped flowers and large green berries that ripen over a period of several months, becoming black and wrinkled.Originally reported by M. Catesby as a local name in the Bahamas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > other tropical or exotic fruit-trees or -plants

tamarind1614

star apple1693

seven-year apple1731

wild mangosteen1753

peach1760

ackee1792

Java plum1829

abiu1834

jambu1834

jakkalsbessie1854

calabash-nutmeg1866

jambolan1866

Chinese gooseberry1925

1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 434 The Seven Years Apple. He [sc. Catesby] knows not the Reason of the Name, because the Fruit ripens in seven or eight Months Time.

1893 Youth's Compan. 9 Mar. 126/3 Seven-year apples with star-like white blossoms having a delicious fragrance.

2014 Targeted News Service (Florida) (Nexis) 25 July A new national champion tree, a seven-year-apple (Casasia clusiifolia), was crowned in Biscayne National Park.

seven-year bean n. (also †seven-years bean) any of various cultivated leguminous plants from which beans can be harvested in several successive years without resowing: spec. †(a) Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (obsolete) (cf. seven-year pea n.); (b) (chiefly Australian) the scarlet runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > other beans

bean1548

black bean1569

calavance1620

red bean1658

seven-year bean1666

lablab1670

Cajan1693

dal1698

adzuki1727

tick-bean1744

tick1765

toker1786

mash1801

Congo pea1812

stick bean1823

moog1840

moth1840

Lima1856

feijão1857

asparagus pea1859

mung1866

wall1884

Rangoon bean1903

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 64 Those called the Seven-years Beans, because the same stalk bears seven years one after another.

1881 Australasian (Melbourne) 3 Sept. 312/2 Couch grass, melons, seven-year bean and plantain have been tried, and all grow splendidly.

1950 Mail Sunday Mag. (Adelaide) 18 Feb. 17/4 The seven-year bean seeds are generally planted in late spring.

2012 Weekly Times (Australia) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 74 Scarlet runner or seven year beans are great in colder climates. They die down over the cooler months to an underground tuber, then shoot up once the weather warms up in spring.

seven-year pea n. (also †seven-years pea) chiefly Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (cf. seven-year bean n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant

rouncival1570

garden pea1573

field pease1597

vale-grey1615

rose pea1629

hotspur1663

seven-year pea1672

rathe-ripe1677

huff-codc1680

pigeon pea1683

hog-pease1686

shrub pea1691

field pea1707

pea1707

crown pea1726

maple rouncival1731

marrowfat1731

moratto1731

pig pea1731

sickle-pea1731

hog pea1732

maple pea1732

marrow pea1733

black eye?1740

egg-pea1744

magotty bay bean1789

Prussian1804

maple grey1805

partridge pea1812

Prussian blue1822

scimitar1834

marrow1855

fill-basket1881

string-pea1891

mattar1908

vining pea1959

1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 21 It is called by the English which there inhabits, Seven years Pease, or seven years Vetches; I suppose, because it continueth seven years with once planting.

1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 64 It is a perennial plant, bearing when about a year old, and lasts from five to seven years in good soil, whence it has derived the name of seven-year-pea.

2008 B. W. Higman Jamaican Food vi. 255 Although it has literally scores of names, the best known in Jamaica are gungo or gungu pea, Congo pea, Angola pea, pigeon pea, no-eye pea, seven-year pea or (confusingly and apparently exclusive to Jamaica) red pea.

† seven-year vine n. Obsolete a yellow-flowered morning-glory, Distimake tuberosus, native to tropical America and widely naturalized elsewhere; also called Spanish arborvine, wood rose.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > American or West Indian

water withy1559

West Indian China-root1577

savannah flower1696

water withe1696

Spanish woodbine1731

potato vine1750

Indian grass1753

seven-year vine1756

tropaeolum1759

woodbine1760

water vine1774

canariensis1835

Philodendron1840

Monstera1858

twig-climber1900

money bush1924

potato creeper1925

sweetheart plant1963

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 156 (heading) The seven-year vine, or Spanish arbor-vine.

1918 South-eastern Naturalist 23 10 It is known in Jamaica as the ‘Seven Year Vine’. The tubers are not edible.

C2.

Seven Years War n. (with the) a war (1756–63) in which Britain, Prussia, and Hanover contended against Austria, France, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and Spain.The main issues of the war were the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy overseas, and that between Prussia and Austria for the domination of Germany. The British made substantial gains over France abroad, capturing French Canada and undermining French influence in India. The war was ended by the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763, leaving Britain the supreme European naval and colonial power and Prussia in an appreciably stronger position than before in central Europe. [Compare German siebenjähriger Krieg (1768 or earlier).]

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war

Punic War1556

Vandal war1613

American Civil War1775

Seven Years War1775

Revolutionary Wara1784

Peninsular war1811

Great War1815

Mormon war1833

opium war1841

the Thirty Years' War1841

the Thirty Years' War1842

Mexican War1846

Napoleonic War1850

Crimean War1854

Hundred Years War1874

Balkan war1881

Boer War1883

Winter War1939

Six Day War1967

Yom Kippur War1973

Gulf War1981

Falklands conflict1982

1775 Politician's Dict. I. 275 (heading) Extraordinary expence in France on account of the seven years war.

1788 J. Towers Mem. Frederick III of Prussia II. 325 Thus ended, what is called in Germany, The Seven Years War.

2010 G. Corrigan Second World War (2013) 3 It would be perfectly sound..to nominate the Seven Years War as the First World War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as the Second, and the Kaiser's War the Third.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seven year
释义	seven yearadj. Brit. /ˌsɛvn ˈjɪə/, /ˌsɛvn ˈjəː/, U.S. /ˌsɛvən ˈjɪ(ə)r/ Forms: α. Middle English sevene yeres, 1500s–1600s seauen yeares, 1500s–1600s seauen yeeres, 1500s–1600s seauen yeres, 1500s–1600s seuen yeares, 1500s–1600s seuen yeres, 1600s seaven yeares, 1600s seaven years, 1600s seuen yeeres, 1600s seven yeares, 1600s seven yeers, 1600s– seven years, 1800s– seven years'. β. Middle English sefne ȝere, Middle English seuen ȝeer, Middle English vii ȝer, Middle English vii ȝere, 1500s seuen yeare, 1700s– seven year. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seven adj., year n. Etymology: Partly (i) < seven adj. + the plural of year n. Partly (ii) < seven adj. + year n.In the form seven years' at α. forms with the second element in the genitive plural. Consisting of, or lasting for, seven years.See also seven years' bad luck n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years > that lasts a specific number of years seven yeara1393 quinquenniala1475 triennial1641 septennary1644 biennial1645 septenarian1647 septennial1648 diennial1656 quadrennial1656 trienniated1661 quintennial1687 semi-millenary1728 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 239 Sevene yeres besinesse He leyde, bot for the lachesse Of half a Minut of an houre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4597 (MED) Þeese oþere seuen woful neet Bitokeneþ seuen ȝeer hongur greet. 1673 J. Ogilby Asia 241/1 Theile King of Ostlohm obtain'd the Victory; and after a seven years peaceable possession thereof, he was also conquer'd by the Great Mogol. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. i. 143 In that seven-years' sleep of his, so much has changed. 1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Apr. 141 The seven-year periods. 1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle xii. 47 The Barcini brothers, who got a seven-year stretch for dope trafficking. 2010 A. V. Mead in C. Walsh & L. André Dear John, I love Jane 107 I ended our seven-year partnership..and we were divorced by December. Phrases † this seven years day (also these seven years day): for a long time. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time > for this long time this long time (also while)a1413 this seven years day1599 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D4 Father if you would seeke this seuen yeares day, You could not find a fitter match for her. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. i. 2 I saw not better sport these seuen yeeres day. View more context for this quotation 1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. b3^v It hath been mine endeavour this seaven years day, and my usuall Prayer, that I may be able to conclude as M. Bradford the Martyr did. Compounds C1. In the names of plants. seven-year apple n. (also seven years apple) a small evergreen tree of Florida and the Caribbean, Casasia clusiifolia (family Rubiaceae), bearing star-shaped flowers and large green berries that ripen over a period of several months, becoming black and wrinkled.Originally reported by M. Catesby as a local name in the Bahamas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > other tropical or exotic fruit-trees or -plants tamarind1614 star apple1693 seven-year apple1731 wild mangosteen1753 peach1760 ackee1792 Java plum1829 abiu1834 jambu1834 jakkalsbessie1854 calabash-nutmeg1866 jambolan1866 Chinese gooseberry1925 1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 434 The Seven Years Apple. He [sc. Catesby] knows not the Reason of the Name, because the Fruit ripens in seven or eight Months Time. 1893 Youth's Compan. 9 Mar. 126/3 Seven-year apples with star-like white blossoms having a delicious fragrance. 2014 Targeted News Service (Florida) (Nexis) 25 July A new national champion tree, a seven-year-apple (Casasia clusiifolia), was crowned in Biscayne National Park. seven-year bean n. (also †seven-years bean) any of various cultivated leguminous plants from which beans can be harvested in several successive years without resowing: spec. †(a) Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (obsolete) (cf. seven-year pea n.); (b) (chiefly Australian) the scarlet runner bean, Phaseolus coccineus. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > other beans bean1548 black bean1569 calavance1620 red bean1658 seven-year bean1666 lablab1670 Cajan1693 dal1698 adzuki1727 tick-bean1744 tick1765 toker1786 mash1801 Congo pea1812 stick bean1823 moog1840 moth1840 Lima1856 feijão1857 asparagus pea1859 mung1866 wall1884 Rangoon bean1903 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 64 Those called the Seven-years Beans, because the same stalk bears seven years one after another. 1881 Australasian (Melbourne) 3 Sept. 312/2 Couch grass, melons, seven-year bean and plantain have been tried, and all grow splendidly. 1950 Mail Sunday Mag. (Adelaide) 18 Feb. 17/4 The seven-year bean seeds are generally planted in late spring. 2012 Weekly Times (Australia) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 74 Scarlet runner or seven year beans are great in colder climates. They die down over the cooler months to an underground tuber, then shoot up once the weather warms up in spring. seven-year pea n. (also †seven-years pea) chiefly Caribbean the pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (cf. seven-year bean n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant rouncival1570 garden pea1573 field pease1597 vale-grey1615 rose pea1629 hotspur1663 seven-year pea1672 rathe-ripe1677 huff-codc1680 pigeon pea1683 hog-pease1686 shrub pea1691 field pea1707 pea1707 crown pea1726 maple rouncival1731 marrowfat1731 moratto1731 pig pea1731 sickle-pea1731 hog pea1732 maple pea1732 marrow pea1733 black eye?1740 egg-pea1744 magotty bay bean1789 Prussian1804 maple grey1805 partridge pea1812 Prussian blue1822 scimitar1834 marrow1855 fill-basket1881 string-pea1891 mattar1908 vining pea1959 1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 21 It is called by the English which there inhabits, Seven years Pease, or seven years Vetches; I suppose, because it continueth seven years with once planting. 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 64 It is a perennial plant, bearing when about a year old, and lasts from five to seven years in good soil, whence it has derived the name of seven-year-pea. 2008 B. W. Higman Jamaican Food vi. 255 Although it has literally scores of names, the best known in Jamaica are gungo or gungu pea, Congo pea, Angola pea, pigeon pea, no-eye pea, seven-year pea or (confusingly and apparently exclusive to Jamaica) red pea. † seven-year vine n. Obsolete a yellow-flowered morning-glory, Distimake tuberosus, native to tropical America and widely naturalized elsewhere; also called Spanish arborvine, wood rose. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > American or West Indian water withy1559 West Indian China-root1577 savannah flower1696 water withe1696 Spanish woodbine1731 potato vine1750 Indian grass1753 seven-year vine1756 tropaeolum1759 woodbine1760 water vine1774 canariensis1835 Philodendron1840 Monstera1858 twig-climber1900 money bush1924 potato creeper1925 sweetheart plant1963 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 156 (heading) The seven-year vine, or Spanish arbor-vine. 1918 South-eastern Naturalist 23 10 It is known in Jamaica as the ‘Seven Year Vine’. The tubers are not edible. C2. Seven Years War n. (with the) a war (1756–63) in which Britain, Prussia, and Hanover contended against Austria, France, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and Spain.The main issues of the war were the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy overseas, and that between Prussia and Austria for the domination of Germany. The British made substantial gains over France abroad, capturing French Canada and undermining French influence in India. The war was ended by the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763, leaving Britain the supreme European naval and colonial power and Prussia in an appreciably stronger position than before in central Europe. [Compare German siebenjähriger Krieg (1768 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1775 Politician's Dict. I. 275 (heading) Extraordinary expence in France on account of the seven years war. 1788 J. Towers Mem. Frederick III of Prussia II. 325 Thus ended, what is called in Germany, The Seven Years War. 2010 G. Corrigan Second World War (2013) 3 It would be perfectly sound..to nominate the Seven Years War as the First World War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as the Second, and the Kaiser's War the Third. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1393
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