seventeenth

Pluralseventeenths

1. 1
   adjective

   Coming right after the sixteenth in order, and number 17 in a row or list.

   Today is my seventeenth birthday.

   We took the elevator to the seventeenth floor.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   One part of something that has been split into 17 equal parts.

   Like cutting a pie into seventeen equal slices and taking just one.

   Each child got a seventeenth of the pizza.

   Only a seventeenth of the class was absent that day.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   In music, a wide gap between two notes that are two octaves and a third apart.

   Like stretching your hands very far apart on a piano to reach two notes.

   The two notes were a seventeenth apart on the keyboard.

   She played a seventeenth, jumping far up the scale.

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