Synonyms:
seventeenth, 17th
Meaning: coming next after the sixteenth in position
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
seventeenth
Meaning: position 17 in a countable series of things
Usage examples
When it was the Six Hundred and Seventeenth Night,
In the seventeenth century Germany, France, Sweden, and Spain warred for thirty years.
It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the taste for books became a taste for reading.
In France, by the middle of the seventeenth century, the library had come to be a recognized feature in private houses.
He lived in a vast hotel near that part of London called Seventh Way, and had very large and comfortable apartments on the seventeenth floor.
On the other hand, it is certain that from comparatively early in the seventeenth century there were to be found here and there women who smoked.
There's a tombstone near that little old hawthorn, and there are two others side by side under the wall, still even legibly late seventeenth century.
It was natural that where books were few, small bookcases should be preferred to a room lined with shelves; and in the seventeenth century, according to John Evelyn, the "three nations of Great Britain" contained fewer books than Paris.
"Soon after, the business had grown so large that E. H. Johnson and I went in as partners, and Bergmann rented an immense factory building at the corner of Avenue B and East Seventeenth Street, New York, six stories high and covering a quarter of a block.
Beautiful bindings were still highly valued, and some of the most wonderful work produced in France belongs to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; but as people began to buy books for the sake of what they contained, less exaggerated importance was attached to their exterior, so that bindings, though perfect as taste and skill could make them, were seldom as extravagantly enriched as in the two preceding centuries.