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Definition of Seventeenth

1. Adjective. Coming next after the sixteenth in position.

Definition of Seventeenth

1. a. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

2. n. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

Definition of Seventeenth

1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number seventeen. ¹

2. Noun. (fractional) One of seventeen equal parts of a whole. ¹

3. Noun. (music) An interval of two octaves and a third. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seventeenth

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Seventeenth

1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Seventeenth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"CHAPTER III FRENCH seventeenth CENTURY LITERATURE AND ITS EUROPEAN INFLUENCE THE literature of France in the seventeenth century has always been regarded, ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"CHAPTER III FRENCH seventeenth CENTURY LITERATURE AND ITS EUROPEAN INFLUENCE THE literature of France in the seventeenth century has always been regarded, ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"The religious records are on the whole characteristic of the seventeenth century ; the political of the eighteenth. And the former issued in such ..."

4. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII THE seventeenth CENTURY: NON-DRAMATIC LITERATURE BEFORE THE RESTORATION THE non-dramatic literature of the early seventeenth century shows in ..."

5. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII THE seventeenth CENTURY: NON-DRAMATIC LITERATURE BEFORE THE RESTORATION THE non-dramatic literature of the early seventeenth century shows in ..."

6. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1873)
"CHAPTER THE STRUGGLE OF PROTESTANTISM IN THE seventeenth CENTURY. THE Catholic Reaction, of which the Pope was the spiritual, and Philip II. the secular ..."

7. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1877)
"CHAPTER THE STRUGGLE OP PROTESTANTISM IN THE seventeenth CENTURY. THE Catholic Reaction, of which the Pope was the spiritual, and Philip II. the secular ..."

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