seventeenth

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seventeenth - 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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  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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seventeenth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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