# seventeenth

Pronunciation: say "se-vuhn-TEENTH" /ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/

## Adjective

1. Coming after the sixteenth in order or rank; occupying position number 17 in a series.
   - Simple: Coming right after the sixteenth in order, and number 17 in a row or list.
   - _She finished in seventeenth place after a tough qualifying round._
   - _The treaty was signed on the seventeenth of June._

## Noun

2. Any one of seventeen equal parts into which a whole is divided.
   - Simple: One part of something that has been split into 17 equal parts.
   - _Each shareholder received a seventeenth of the company's annual profit._
   - _Dividing the estate among the heirs left each with roughly a seventeenth._
3. A musical interval that spans two octaves and a third between its lowest and highest notes.
   - Simple: In music, a wide gap between two notes that are two octaves and a third apart.
   - _The chord spanned a seventeenth from the lowest to the highest note._
   - _Adding a seventeenth above the bass gave the harmony a bright, open sound._

## Origin

From Old English seofontēoþa, equivalent to "seventeen" plus the suffix "-th".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/seventeenth (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).