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seventeenth
[ sev-uhn-teenth ]
adjective
- next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- being one of 17 equal parts.
noun
- a seventeenth part, especially of one (1/17).
- the seventeenth member of a series.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of seventeenth1
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Example Sentences
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 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.
(p. 177) The tobacco boxes of the Seventeenth Century were much larger than those of the present.
The mode of manufacture of snuff now is far different than that employed in the Seventeenth Century.
The ceiling is respectably painted, and was probably the work of an amateur monk of the seventeenth century.
That factory was indeed, even in the latter part of the seventeenth century, a rude and mean building.
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