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Seventeenth
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Part of speech: noun (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. An interval of two octaves and a third.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (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.