2. A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
SEVENTEENTH Sev"en*teenth`, a. Etym: [From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteóedha, seofonteogeedha.]
1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.
2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
SEVENTEENTH
Sev"en*teenth`, n.
1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
3. (Mus.)
Defn: An interval of two octaves and a third.
SEVENTH
Sev"enth, a. Etym: [From Seven: cf. AS. seofoedha.]