seventeenth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun position 17 in a countable series of things
  2. adjective satellite coming next after the sixteenth in position
    17th.

WordNet

Sev"en*teenth` adjective
Etymology
From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteó&edh;a, seofonteoge&edh;a.
Definitions
  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.
Sev"en*teenth` noun
Definitions
  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.) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Webster 1913