Definition of Seventeenth

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Seventeenth

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

Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

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

The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

An interval of two octaves and a third.

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Seventeenth Quotations

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
Henry Bessemer

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
William Lilly

Seventeenth Translations

seventeenth in German is siebzehnte, siebzehnt

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