seventeenths
- 1Plural of seventeenth.
The recipe asked for seven seventeenths of a cup, an oddly precise measure.
Dividing the prize money into seventeenths left each winner with a tiny share.
Note
A plural that belongs only to the nouns: the fraction, one of seventeen equal parts, and the musical interval of two octaves and a third. The ordinal adjective never takes the -s. You say the seventeenth floor, never the seventeenths floor. In fractions the number in front decides the ending: one seventeenth, but three seventeenths. A musician counts seventeenths, the intervals, the same regular way.
seventeenths is a form of seventeenth
seventeenth, noun: Any one of seventeen equal parts into which a whole is divided. Full entry
- Forms
- seventeenthseventeenths plural
- Spelling
- seventeenth → seventeenths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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