seventeenth
next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
being one of 17 equal parts.
a seventeenth part, especially of one (1/17).
the seventeenth member of a series.
Origin of seventeenth
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How to use seventeenth in a sentence
In fact, they were based on the reasoning of that great seventeenth-century Frenchman.
On the short seventeenth, his tee shot stopped six feet from the pin.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
The Story of Noah's Ark From the Bible’s Book of Genesis | The Daily Beast | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.
The regional frictions transplanted from England in the seventeenth century are still alive.
Early in the seventeenth Century tobacco found its way to Constantinople.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.(p. 177) The tobacco boxes of the seventeenth Century were much larger than those of the present.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The mode of manufacture of snuff now is far different than that employed in the seventeenth Century.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The ceiling is respectably painted, and was probably the work of an amateur monk of the seventeenth century.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamThat factory was indeed, even in the latter part of the seventeenth century, a rude and mean building.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for seventeenth
/ (ˈsɛvənˈtiːnθ) /
(usually prenominal)
coming after the sixteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of seventeen: often written 17th
(as noun): the ship docks on the seventeenth
one of 17 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier): a seventeenth part
the fraction equal to one divided by 17 (1/17)
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