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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth'\, noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth'\, adjective [From {Seventeen}: cf. AS. seofonte['o][eth]a, seofonteoge[eth]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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seventeenth
adjective: coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn: {17th}]
noun: position 17 in a countable series of things
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