seventeenth

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

seventeenth
    adj 1: coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn:
           {seventeenth}, {17th}]
    n 1: position 17 in a countable series of things

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

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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