seventeenth Definition

seventeenth
adj

1a. In counting: next after sixteenth;
1b. In counting: last of seventeen.
2. In seventeenth position.
3a. The seventeenth day of the month;

Form: the seventeenth
3b. golf.
The seventeenth hole.
Form: the seventeenth

noun

1. One of seventeen equal parts. Also as adj.

Example: a seventeenth share
2. A fraction equal to one divided by seventeen (usually written &oneseventeeth; ).
3. A person coming seventeenth, eg in a race or exam.

Example: He finished a bedraggled seventeenth

adverb

1. Seventeenthly.

Derivative: seventeenthly
adverb

Used to introduce the seventeenth point in a list.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon; see seventeen + -th.