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seventeenth
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- Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. [1913 Webster]"In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up." [1913 Webster]
- Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided. [1913 Webster]
seventeenth, n.
- The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others. [1913 Webster]
- The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole. [1913 Webster]
- An interval of two octaves and a third. [1913 Webster]
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