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.
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