seventeenth

[sev-uhn-teenth]

adjective

1. next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.

2. being one of 17 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventeenth part, especially of one (1/17).

2. the seventeenth member of a series.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seventeenth¹

before 900; seventeen + -th ²; replacing Middle English seventethe, Old English seofontēotha. ( seven, tithe )

Example Sentences

“It was August seventeenth where I was, and I picked 1999 because it’s my favorite year in history.”

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In the seventeenth season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” the gang is back and more gourmet than ever.

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It’s the negative image of an important intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment, whose principles formed, among other things, the basis for American democracy.

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In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these tunnels were used to store human remains from overcrowded cemeteries.

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