seventeenth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: seventeenth	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seventeenth adj coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn: seventeenth, 17th] n position 17 in a countable series of things
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seventeenth \Sev"enteenth`\, a. [From {Seventeen}: cf. AS. seofonte[a2][edh]a, seofonteoge[edh]a.] 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. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth`\, n. 1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others. 2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole. 3. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a third.