📖 S — The English dictionary · page 30

settlement — Everyday, meaning 1: A place where people have come to live and built homes, such as a village or small town: an early farming settlement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An agreement that ends an argument or legal case.↗ e.g. The two sides reached a settlement.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Paying money that is owed: settlement of a bill.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The act of settling in a new land.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Slow sinking of a building or ground.↗ Example: The first settlement was built beside the river.↗ · A hamlet is the smallest kind of settlement.↗ · The two companies reached a settlement.↗ · The settlement had 120 people; the next one had 3 times as many.↗ · Archaeologists found an old Viking settlement.↗ · He paid $500 in settlement of the bill.↗ · Early settlements needed water and shelter.↗ · Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace.↗

settler — Everyday, meaning 1: A settler is a person who moves to a new place, often far away, to live there for good and make a home.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In history, settlers were people who came from another country and took land to farm and build towns, often where other peoples already lived.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) Something that settles a matter, like a final point that ends an argument.↗ Example: The first settlers built their houses out of logs.↗ · My great-great-grandparents were settlers who came to Canada by ship.↗ · The settlers cleared the forest to plant wheat.↗ · Many settlers did not survive their first winter.↗ · The land the settlers farmed had belonged to Aboriginal people for thousands of years.↗ · In our project we wrote a diary as if we were settlers in New Zealand.↗ · The settlers traded tools for food with the local people.↗ · A new settler arrived in the village every spring.↗ · There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city.↗ · And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.↗ (Torah LEV.25.23, JPS 1917)↗ · As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.17.1, JPS 1917)↗

setup — Everyday, meaning 1: A setup is the way things are arranged or organised: a gaming setup, the classroom setup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Setup is the process of getting something ready to use, like a new computer or phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A setup is a trick planned to make someone look guilty or foolish: «It was a setup!».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In a story or joke, the setup is the first part that prepares for what comes next.↗ Example: Dad has a cool gaming setup in the spare room.↗ · The setup of the new laptop took ages.↗ · We need to set up the tables before the party.↗ · The detective realised the whole thing was a setup.↗ · The joke's setup was long but the punchline was great.↗ · I like the new classroom setup with groups of tables.↗ · Follow the setup steps on the screen.↗

seven — Everyday, meaning 1: Seven is the number 7, one more than six and one less than eight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A week is 7 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Seven o'clock is a time on the clock.↗ Example: There are seven days in a week.↗ · She has seven apples.↗ · Seven children share 21 sweets, so each gets 3.↗ · Seven times eight is 56.↗ · The rainbow has seven colours.↗ · There are seven continents on Earth.↗ · School starts at seven forty-five.↗ · Snow White lived with the seven dwarfs.↗ · But Legless threw it seven miles.↗ · And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.↗ (Torah GEN.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.↗ (Torah GEN.41.24, JPS 1917)↗ · a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; (Torah NUM.28.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And he judged Israel seven years.↗ (Prophets JDG.12.9, JPS 1917)↗ · So was he seven years in building it.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.38, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.↗ (Writings EZR.2.9, JPS 1917)↗

sevenfold — Everyday, meaning 1: Seven times as big or as many.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having seven parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) Seven times over, a lot: «avenged sevenfold».↗ Example: The number of visitors grew sevenfold.↗ · A sevenfold increase from 2 is 14.↗ · The sevenfold path had seven steps.↗ · In the Bible, Cain was promised protection sevenfold.↗ · Prices rose sevenfold in the story.↗ · Their crop grew sevenfold after the rain.↗ · But as she mounted the clamour increased sevenfold: high above them all rang the voices of her three brothers.↗ · If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.↗ (Torah GEN.4.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto him: 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.'↗ And the LORD set a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.↗ (Torah GEN.4.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached Thee, O Lord.↗ (Writings PSA.79.12, JPS 1917)↗ · But if he be found, he must restore sevenfold, he must give all the substance of his house.↗ (Writings PRO.6.31, JPS 1917)↗

seventeen — Everyday, meaning 1: Seventeen is the number 17, one more than sixteen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seventeen is ten and seven.↗ Example: Seventeen birds sat on the wire.↗ · He is seventeen years old.↗ · She has seventeen dollars.↗ · How much are seventeen and five?↗ · Seventeen is a prime number.↗ · My sister is seventeen and learning to drive.↗ · There are seventeen pupils in our reading group.↗ · She was now seventeen, and he nineteen years old.↗ · And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.↗ (Torah GEN.47.28, JPS 1917)↗ · The Arabic alphabet consisted originally of the following seventeen letters:") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · It was apparently originally invented to represent the Assyrian-Babylonian language, which consisted of seventeen or eighteen sounds.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.↗ (Writings EZR.2.39, JPS 1917)↗ · And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.↗ (Prophets JER.32.9, JPS 1917)↗ · In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.1, JPS 1917)↗

seventeenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming next after the sixteenth in order; number 17 in a line or list: the seventeenth runner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (fraction) One of 17 equal parts of a whole: 1/17.↗ Example: She came seventeenth out of 30 runners.↗ · We live on the seventeenth floor.↗ · My cousin had her seventeenth birthday party.↗ · One seventeenth of 34 is 2.↗ · Write seventeenth as a number: 17th.↗ · The seventeenth card in the pack was the queen.↗ · Divide the cake into 17 parts; each is a seventeenth.↗ · "Hurry up," said Edmund, as it fumbled clumsily with the seventeenth shoe.↗ · And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.↗ (Torah GEN.8.4, JPS 1917)↗ · In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.↗ (Torah GEN.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The Seventeenth Path is the Disposing Intelligence, which provides Faith to the Righteous, and they are clothed with the Holy Spirit by it, and it is called the Foundation of Excellence in the state of higher thing.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez; (Writings 1CH.24.15, JPS 1917)↗ · For the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.24, JPS 1917)↗ · In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.↗ (Prophets 2KI.16.1, JPS 1917)↗

seventh — Everyday, meaning 1: Seventh means number 7 in order, after the sixth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seventh is one of seven equal parts of a whole, written 1/7.↗ Example: She is in the seventh grade.↗ · On the seventh day he rested.↗ · A seventh of 28 is 4.↗ · Two sevenths of the class are boys.↗ · Our flat is on the seventh floor.↗ · He finished seventh out of twenty runners.↗ · When she got the puppy she was in seventh heaven.↗ · "I, too, will try a seventh time!" cried Bruce.↗ · So the people rested on the seventh day.↗ (Torah EXO.16.30, JPS 1917)↗ · On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim: (Torah NUM.7.48, JPS 1917)↗ · And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; (Torah NUM.29.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh; (Writings 1CH.12.12, JPS 1917)↗ · the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah; (Writings 1CH.24.10, JPS 1917)↗

seventieth — Everyday, meaning 1: Seventieth means number 70 in order, coming after the sixty-ninth: her seventieth birthday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seventieth is one of 70 equal parts of something (1/70).↗ Example: Grandma is having a party for her seventieth birthday.↗ · He finished in seventieth place out of a hundred runners.↗ · The school celebrated its seventieth anniversary.↗ · One seventieth of 140 is 2.↗ · This is the seventieth page of my book.↗ · The queen's seventieth year on the throne was called the Platinum Jubilee.↗ · Hans thought he would count them for fun, and had already reached the five hundred and seventieth when his host returned and cried, laughing:↗

seventy — Everyday, meaning 1: Seventy is the number 70, which is seven tens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The seventies are the numbers from 70 to 79, or a person's age from 70 to 79.↗ Example: A ticket costs seventy cents.↗ · Seventy people came to the show.↗ · Grandpa is seventy years old.↗ · What is seventy minus twenty?↗ · Seventy is seven tens.↗ · The speed limit here is seventy kilometers an hour.↗ · Grandma is in her seventies.↗ · "We have only seventy-five pigs," said the Princess, "and with me that's seventy-six!"↗ · And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.↗ (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917)↗ · If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.↗ (Torah GEN.4.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.↗ (Torah GEN.11.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria.↗ (Prophets 2KI.10.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.↗ (Writings EZR.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.↗ (Writings EZR.2.5, JPS 1917)↗

sever — Everyday, meaning 1: To cut right through something, separating it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To end a relationship or connection completely: «sever ties».↗ Example: The rope was severed by a sharp rock.↗ · The storm severed the power line.↗ · The two countries severed ties.↗ · Don't touch a severed cable.↗ · He severed his friendship with the bully.↗ · The axe severed the branch.↗ · The Childe raised his shining sword, and severed the head of his faithful hound.↗ · Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as Elon-bezaanannim, which is by Kedesh.↗ (Prophets JDG.4.11, JPS 1917)↗

several — Everyday, meaning 1: Several means more than two, but not very many: several friends.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a pronoun, several means a few of a group.↗ e.g. Several of the cakes were eaten.↗ Example: When there are several equal groups, we multiply.↗ · Several children share 12 cookies equally.↗ · Lily bought several packs of pens.↗ · I have read this book several times.↗ · Several birds sat on the wire.↗ · It rained for several days.↗ · Several of my friends have pets.↗ · We waited several minutes for the bus.↗ · After several days they reached an island.↗ · a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; (Torah NUM.28.29, JPS 1917)↗ · and a several tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; (Torah NUM.29.15, JPS 1917)↗ · a several tenth part shalt thou offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; (Torah NUM.28.21, JPS 1917)↗

severance — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Money paid to a worker when their job ends because the company no longer needs them; also called severance pay or redundancy pay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Ending a connection or relationship: the severance of ties.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cutting something off.↗ Example: When the factory closed, workers got severance pay.↗ · Her severance package was three months' pay.↗ · Severance is 1 week's pay for every year worked, so 6 years gives 6 weeks.↗ · The severance of the two countries' ties surprised many.↗ · Dad got a small severance when he was let go.↗ · The severance of the rope sent the boat drifting.↗