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sevenfold

/ˈsɛvənfoʊld/

sevenfold adjective: seven times as much; multiplied by seven.

Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

  1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
    • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
    • Long-distance rail travel is increasing despite a similar sevenfold rise in ownership of private transport throughout the country.1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century expansion”, in Modern Railways, pages 189–190
  2. Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
    • Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120

Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seven.
    • And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:15

sevenfold meaning in Hindi, Telugu and Sanskrit

sevenfold in Hindi

sevenfold, septuply
सातगुना sātgunā

sevenfold in Telugu

multiplied by seven (adjective)
ఏడింతలు ēḍintalu

sevenfold in Sanskrit

sevenfold, in seven parts
सप्तधा saptadhā́

Origin of sevenfold

Inherited from Middle English sevenfold, sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven + -fold.

Words formed from sevenfold

Questions about sevenfold

What does sevenfold mean?
Sevenfold means seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
What is sevenfold in Hindi?
Sevenfold in Hindi is सातगुना (sātgunā). See Sevenfold meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sevenfold?
Sevenfold can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce sevenfold?
Sevenfold is pronounced /ˈsɛvənfoʊld/.

Words near sevenfold in the dictionary

  1. sevendible
  2. sevendy
  3. sevened out
  4. Sevener
  5. Seveners
  6. sevenfold
  7. sevenfolded
  8. sevenfoldness
  9. sevengill
  10. sevengills
  11. Sevenhampton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sevenfold (page history and authors); सातगुना (Hindi) (page history and authors); सप्तधा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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