seven years
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Seven years is a span of time often treated as a significant interval.
It appears in legal and cultural contexts: the seven-year itch suggests restlessness in long relationships, and seven years is a common statute of limitations period.
It took seven years to pay off the loan.
The phrase carries weight beyond its literal duration, implying patience, transformation, or the completion of a cycle.
- decadeTen-year span
- itchUrge to scratch
- marriageFormal union between partners
- luckChance affecting outcomes
- good luckFavorable chance or fortune
war · bad luck · famine · cycle · biblical · plenty · drought · apprenticeship · contract · prison term · time served · sabbatical · milestone · coming of age · anniversary · childhood · sentence · stretch
- FaustianMephistopheles, Faust, Goethe, devil pact, Dr. Faustus
- JosephJoseph, dreams, brothers, Pharaoh, prison
- indentured laborindenture, indentured servants, bound labor, servitude, bondsman
seven yearseternity
Boundless temporal existence
seven minutes · forever · seven days · ages · eons
seven yearsages
Extended time spans
some time · forever · indefinitely · briefly · open-ended
seven, years, sevens, year, yearly, yearling, sevenfold, seventh, sevenths