seventeenth
Speech parts
1. seventeenth - Noun
2. seventeenth - Adjective
3. seventeenth - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
An interval of two octaves and a third.
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According to archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham, "the great country houses of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries were, in a social sense, the castles of their day".
According to art historian Andreas Beyer, it "offered a prelude of a genre that would only truly gain acceptance in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century".
Adams then went on to serve as script editor on the show for its seventeenth season in 1979.
A profitable trade in ivory, which gave the area its name, was carried out during the seventeenth century, but it brought about such a decline in elephants that the trade itself virtually had died out by the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Although these two methods of torture were used in the west and the east, Russia implemented a system of fines payable for the crime of witchcraft during the seventeenth century.
A seventeenth century popular broadside ballad also appears to recount events from books 1-4 of the Aeneid, focusing mostly on the relationship between Aeneas and Dido.