seventeenth
IPA: sˈɛvʌntˈinθ
noun
- One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
- (music) An interval of two octaves and a third.
adjective
- The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
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Examples of "seventeenth" in Sentences
- Seventeenth and eighteenth century.
- That was not the case in the seventeenth century.
- To day was the seventeenth anniversary of the truce.
- The seventeenth entrant Matt Hardy joined the match.
- Osasco is the seventeenth richest city in the country.
- The fiddle has predominated since the seventeenth century.
- The 1632 quarto was the only edition in the seventeenth century.
- The equally eventful seventeenth century found the lairds in royal favour.
- Baggy trousers worn by sailors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- In his seventeenth year, he married a woman and lived a blissful conjugal life.
- Maccabaeus to Joshua is clarified by remembering the role of Canaan in seventeenth British theories of governmentality.
- Back to Warriors storylines now, which feels like light relief after being mired in seventeenth century warfare for so long.
- Set in seventeenth-century Iran, The Blood of Flowers is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood.
- Then the telescope will reveal stars still fainter and fainter, down to what we term the seventeenth or eighteenth magnitudes, or even lower still.
- Perhaps because of the longstanding gold and sulfur trade, the aboriginal societies of northern Taiwan had features that were unusual in seventeenth-century Taiwan.
- Although actual rates varied widely, in seventeenth-century Taiwan a real appears to have been worth around 56 Dutch stuivers and so was worth about two-thirds of a tael.
- Hand-made carpets also started to appear in seventeenth century paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Velazquez, often in formal portraits of the kings and noblemen who could have afforded them.
- Look for a contemporary act on the top twenty list and you can find Coldplay in seventeenth spot, grossing £11 million with an average ticket price of a much more modest £19; Green Day hit number 12 with £17 million on £18 tickets.
- The Agricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-century England radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on an acre of land, and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s, when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico.
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