Seventeenth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The ordinal number matching the number 17 in a series.
  • n. One of 17 equal parts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
  • n. One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
  • n. An interval of two octaves and a third.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
  • adj. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • n. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
  • n. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
  • n. An interval of two octaves and a third.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • One next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen of the same class: an ordinal numeral: as, the seventeenth, day of the month.
  • Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which a thing may be divided.
  • n. The next in order after the sixteenth; the seventh after the tenth.
  • n. The quotient of unity divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
  • n. In music, the melodic or harmonic interval of two octaves and a third; or an organ-stop giving tones at such an interval from the normal pitch of the digitals; a tierce.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. coming next after the sixteenth in position
  • n. position 17 in a countable series of things
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