seventeenth
/ˌsɛvnˈtiːnθ
/ordinal number
1Constituting number seventeen in a sequence; 17th: the seventeenth century his seventeenth birthday...
- Through the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scholars argued relentlessly about the details of Egyptian and Chinese chronology.
- The stained glass, which is mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was reset in 1912.
- County government was in the hands of 3,000 or so prominent gentry in the early seventeenth century.
2Each of seventeen equal parts into which something is or may be divided: the bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value...
- He sold it for about a seventeenth of its value.
- The bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value.
- An annual allowance of one seventeenth of the expenditure is given for capital expenditure on patent rights.
