Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seventeenth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were
all the fountains of the great deep broken up.
--Gen. vii.
11.
2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into
which anything is divided.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth`\, n.
1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after
sixteen others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of
seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
3. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seventeenth
adj : coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn: {17th}]
n : position 17 in a countable series of things
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