SEVENTEENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventeenth mean? 

• SEVENTEENTH (noun)
  The noun SEVENTEENTH has 1 sense:

1. position 17 in a countable series of things

  Familiarity information: SEVENTEENTH used as a noun is very rare.

• SEVENTEENTH (adjective)
  The adjective SEVENTEENTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the sixteenth in position

  Familiarity information: SEVENTEENTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTEENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 17 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("seventeenth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Derivation:

seventeenth (coming next after the sixteenth in position)

• SEVENTEENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the sixteenth in position

Synonyms:

17th; seventeenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

Derivation:

seventeenth (position 17 in a countable series of things)

 Context examples 

The designation for each member of the seventeenth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 17, NCI Thesaurus)

At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

‘The original has no date, but is in the spelling of the middle of the seventeenth century,’ remarked Musgrave.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NOW that I was in my seventeenth year, and had already some need for a razor, I had begun to weary of the narrow life of the village, and to long to see something of the great world beyond.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)