seventeenth

/ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/

noun 2adj 1

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ADJ.

happy, late

VERB + SEVENTEENTH

back, destroyed, labour

SEVENTEENTH + NOUN

b, bedroom, birthday, c, century, day, floor, october

PREP.

about, from, in, on

Definitions

adj

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

Mr. Edward Glasser maintains that this people existed from about the seventeenth century B.C., and that the Sabæans followed them in the occupancy of those regions.

noun

One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.

A seventeeth of 340 is 20.

An interval of two octaves and a third.

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Mr. Edward Glasser maintains that this people existed from about the seventeenth century B.C., and that the Sabæans followed them in the occupancy of those regions.

Wiktionary

A seventeeth of 340 is 20.

Wiktionary

Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.

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Hanson is wrong when he states international economic developments led to great migrations of labour in the seventeenth century.

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Yesterday was my seventeenth birthday.

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His family dates back to the seventeenth century.

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