Seventeenth

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth`\, n.
     1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after
        sixteen others.
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     2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of


        seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
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     3. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth`\, a. [From {Seventeen}: cf. AS.
     seofonte['o][eth]a, seofonteoge[eth]a.]
     1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen
        others.
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              In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were
              all the fountains of the great deep broken up.
                                                    --Gen. vii.
                                                    11.
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     2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into
        which anything is divided.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seventeenth
       adj : coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn: {17th}]
       n : position 17 in a countable series of things