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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Seventeenth

/sĕv'-ən-tēnth'/ · Sev·en·teenth · IPA /ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/
01 a. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
  1. 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. 2.
    Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
02 n. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
  1. 1.
    The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
  2. 2.
    The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
  3. 3.
    An interval of two octaves and a third.(Mus.)