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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sev•en•teenth (sev′ən tēnth′),USA pronunciation adj. - next after the sixteenth;
being the ordinal number for 17. - being one of 17 equal parts.
n. - a seventeenth part, esp. of one (1⁄17).
- the seventeenth member of a series.
- bef. 900; seventeen + -th2; replacing Middle English seventethe, Old English seofontēotha. (see seven, tithe)
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ˈseventeenˈth /ˈsɛvənˈtiːnθ/ adj - (usually prenominal) coming after the sixteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of seventeen: often written 17th
- (as noun): the ship docks on the seventeenth
n - one of 17 approximately equal parts of something
- (as modifier): a seventeenth part
- the fraction equal to one divided by 17 ( 1⁄17)
sev•en•teen /ˈsɛvənˈtin/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
- a symbol for this number, as 17 or XVII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adj. [before a noun] - amounting to 17 in number:seventeen summers ago.
sev•en•teenth, adj., n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sev•en•teen (sev′ən tēn′),USA pronunciation n. - a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
- a symbol for this number, as 17 or XVII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adj. - amounting to 17 in number.
- Literature(cap., italics) a novel (1916) by Booth Tarkington.
- Middle English seventene, Old English seofontēne (cognate with Dutch zeventien, German siebzehn). See seven, -teen bef. 900
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