seventeenth
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛvənˌtiːnθ/
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decimoséptimo
- In the race, she finished in seventeenth place, just missing the top sixteen.
- seventeenth century
- early seventeenth
- late seventeenth
Examples
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A variety of different schools and interpretations of Aristotle's writings had developed by the early seventeenth century.
Academic text (2013) -
But she had disappeared on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, never to be seen again.
Fiction book (1998) -
I felt in love with everything from the seventeenth century, the painting, the music.
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The development of a theory of three "primary" colors in the seventeenth century provided the basis.
Academic text (1990) -
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year... my mother decided that I was depressed.
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Settled by French traders in the seventeenth century, it returned to India in 1954.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Hungary was engaged in a bloody war with the Turks.
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The existence of autobiographical writings from the seventeenth century seems to me to justify this project.
Fiction book (1996) -
The court of Sweden, like everyplace else in seventeenth-century Europe, was infested with fleas.
Fiction book (1990) -
The seventeenth student in line was eager to enter the classroom.
Synonyms
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Number seventeen in a list or order
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A Roman numeral meaning seventeen
A Roman numeral for 17
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seventeenth comes from the number seventeen (which is seven + teen, with teen meaning 'ten') and the ending -th that shows order. So it simply means the place after the sixteenth, number 17.