Seventeenth Definition

sĕvən-tēnth
noun
The ordinal number matching the number 17 in a series.
American Heritage
The one following the sixteenth.
Webster's New World
Any of the seventeen equal parts of something;117
Webster's New World

(music) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Wiktionary
adjective
Preceded by sixteen others in a series; 17th.
Webster's New World
Designating any of the seventeen equal parts of something.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adverb
In the seventeenth place, rank, group, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Seventeenth

Noun

Singular:
seventeenth
Plural:
seventeenths

Seventeenth Sentence Examples

  • The young duchess died in her seventeenth year after giving birth to a son, and the duke took a second wife from a humble stock, newly enriched and honoured, the daughter of Henry VIII.'s subservient chancellor, the Lord Audley of Walden.

  • On the seventeenth of November I was not very well, and did not go to school.

  • When Cleary spoke to his landlady on Monday, the seventeenth, he told her he'd already mailed her the key.

  • Thus, by the end of his seventeenth year his apprenticeship of study was There is, however, one true nest-building parrot, the greybreasted parrakeet (Myopsittacus monachus), which constructs a huge nest of twigs.

  • History and Bibliography.The study of plant anatomy was begun in the middle of the seventeenth century as a direct result of the construction of microscopes, with which a clear view of the structure of plant tissues could be obtained.

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