seventeenth

Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Related to seventeenth: seventieth

sev·en·teenth

(sĕv′ən-tēnth′)

1. The ordinal number matching the number 17 in a series.

2. One of 17 equal parts.

sev′en·teenth′ adv. & adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

seventeenth

(ˈsɛvənˈtiːnθ)

adj

(Mathematics) (usually prenominal)

a. coming after the sixteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of seventeen: often written 17th

b. (as noun): the ship docks on the seventeenth.

1. (Mathematics)

a. one of 17 approximately equal parts of something

b. (as modifier): a seventeenth part.

2. (Mathematics) the fraction equal to one divided by 17 ()

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

sev•en•teenth

(ˈsɛv ənˈtinθ)

adj.

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

2. being one of 17 equal parts.

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

4. the seventeenth member of a series.

[1300–50; Middle English sevententhe (see seventeen, -th²); replacing Middle English seventethe, Old English seofontēotha (see tithe)]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	seventeenth - position 17 in a countable series of things rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
Adj.	1.	seventeenth - coming next after the sixteenth in position 17th ordinal - being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh"

Translations

السّابِع عَشَرجُزء من 17سَابِع عَشَرَ

dissetè

sedmnáctýsedmnáctina

syttende

siebzehnter siebzehnt Siebzehnte Siebzehntel

δέκατος έβδομος

decimoséptimo

seitsemästoista

dix-septième

sedamnaesti

tizenhetediktizenheted

sautjándi

diciassettesimo

十七番目の

열일곱 번째의

sedemnástinasedemnásty

sedemnajstisedemnajstina

sjuttonde

ที่สิบเจ็ด

on yedinci1/1717.incion yedide bir

thứ mười bảy

十七分之一十七分之一的第十七个

seventeenth

[ˈsevnˈtiːnθ]

A. ADJ → decimoséptimo
the seventeenth century → el siglo diecisiete

B. N (in series) → decimoséptimo/a m/f; (= fraction) → decimoséptima parte f
see fifth for usage

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seventeenth

[ˌsɛv^ənˈtiːnθ]

adj → dix-septième
her seventeenth birthday → son dix-septième anniversaire
the seventeenth century → le dix-septième siècle
the seventeenth floor → le dix-septième étage

(gen) → dix-septième mf

(= day of month) the seventeenth → le dix-sept
the seventeenth of August → le dix-sept août

(= fraction) → dix-septième m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seventeenth

adj → siebzehnte(r, s); a seventeenth part → ein Siebzehntel nt

n (= fraction) → Siebzehntel nt; (of series) → Siebzehnte(r, s)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

seventeenth

[ˌsɛvnˈtiːnθ]

1. adj → diciassettesimo/a

2. n (in series) → diciassettesimo/a; (fraction) → diciassettesimo
for usage see fifth

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

seventeen

(sevnˈtiːn) noun

1. the number or figure 17.

2. the age of 17.

adjective

1. 17 in number.

2. aged 17.

seventeen-

having seventeen. a seventeen-page report.

ˌsevenˈteenth noun

1. one of seventeen equal parts.

2. (also adjective) (the) last of seventeen (people, things etc); (the) next after the sixteenth.

ˌsevenˈteen-year-old noun

a person or animal that is seventeen years old.

adjective

(of a person, animal or thing) that is seventeen years old.

seventeenth

→ سَابِع عَشَرَ sedmnáctý syttende siebzehnter δέκατος έβδομος decimoséptimo seitsemästoista dix-septième sedamnaesti diciassettesimo 十七番目の 열일곱 번째의 zeventiende syttende siedemnasty décimo sétimo семнадцатый sjuttonde ที่สิบเจ็ด on yedinci thứ mười bảy 第十七个

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

The fact is, that the two eyes of the Signor Mazarin were the stars more or less brilliant in which the France of the seventeenth century read its destiny every evening and every morning.

View in context

Perhaps I may venture to add that personally I find it advisable to pass hastily over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and so gain as much time as possible for the nineteenth.

View in context

The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.

View in context

The greatest advance, however, towards a re-introduction of the Fables of Aesop to a place in the literature of the world, was made in the early part of the seventeenth century.

View in context

I dare to say that a not large percentage of youths, in the formative stage of fifteen to seventeen, could have survived the stress of heavy drinking that I survived between my fifteenth and seventeenth years; that a not large percentage of men could have punished the alcohol I have punished in my manhood years and lived to tell the tale.

View in context

"Only," said he, "it is no longer the sentimental card of the seventeenth century, it is the card of life, very neatly divided into two parts, one feminine, the other masculine; the right hemisphere for woman, the left for man."

View in context

After that, all that we know of him is that at Dean Prior "Robert Herrick vicker was buried ye 15th day of October 1674." Thus in twilight ends the life of the greatest lyric poet of the seventeenth century.

View in context

He has more manners of villainy, and no more conscience than an Italian prince of the seventeenth century.

View in context

When the visitor has mounted the crumbling steps of this ancient donjon, he reaches a little plateau where, in the seventeenth century, Georges Philibert de Sequigny, Lord of the Glandier, Maisons-Neuves and other places, built the existing town in an abominably rococo style of architecture.

View in context

Yet upon the black also--the antithesis of the red--no experienced gambler would stake anything, for the reason that every practised player knows the meaning of "capricious fortune." That is to say, after the sixteenth (or so) success of the red, one would think that the seventeenth coup would inevitably fall upon the black; wherefore, novices would be apt to back the latter in the seventeenth round, and even to double or treble their stakes upon it--only, in the end, to lose.

View in context

On her seventeenth birthday, he did not visit the churchyard: it was raining, and I observed - 'You'll surely not go out to-night, sir?'

View in context

He remembered that he had read somewhere of an ancient Egyptian god cut from a similar substance, and, thinking it over, he came to the conclusion that he must have read it in Sir Thomas Brown's POPULAR ERRORS, a book of the seventeenth century.