17th
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛvənˌtiθ/
:
decimoséptimo
- At home, she pretended to continue her work on 17th-century royal portraits.
- the 17th century
- 16th and 17th
- 17th and 18th
Examples
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To Higginbotham, the tale began in the 17th century, and it shadows American law and society today.
Academic text (1996) -
When these pictures were taken, both worked at Plimoth Plantation, a "living museum" of 17th-century Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Fiction book (2000) -
I was thinking a 17th century grand piano--
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So, in the late 17th century, they fled to the New World.
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Please watch this column for advance notice of the 17th International Workshop and Conference.
Academic text (1999) -
"Before the 17th century, children's books did not exist because children had not yet been invented."
Academic text (2013) -
Among these was Robert, the 17th Earl of Bruce, a leading contender for the crown of Scotland.
Fiction book (1995) -
But this kind of disgruntlement was already rife at the end of the 17th century.
Academic text (2008) -
The image of the "slough of despond" comes from John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress.
Academic text (2011) -
The 17th book in the series has a surprising twist at the end.
Synonyms
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The position after the sixteenth in a sequence
Surface Forms
Morphology
17th = 17 (transparent) = 17 + th
Standard ordinal formation attaching the suffix '-th' to the cardinal numeral, which is directly understandable to learners.
Etymology
17Th is the short form of seventeenth, which is built from seven + ten with the ending -th that shows position in a list. So 17th means 'number seventeen' or the day of a month and tells you something comes after the sixteenth.