Seventeenth
adjective
Coming next after the sixteenth in position.
Today is the seventeenth day of the month.
Often appears as...
- seventeenth century
- seventeenth day
noun
One part in seventeen equal parts.
The seventeenth part of the pizza was still quite large
Often appears as...
- one seventeenth
- seventeenth part
adjective
Coming next after the sixteenth in position.
Today is the seventeenth day of the month.
Often appears as...
- seventeenth century
- seventeenth day
noun
One part in seventeen equal parts.
The seventeenth part of the pizza was still quite large
Often appears as...
- one seventeenth
- seventeenth part
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Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Use
Used to describe the order in a sequence; helpful in dates and positions.
Her birthday falls on the seventeenth of April.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Commonly used to refer to centuries and historical time frames.
I'm studying the political changes of the seventeenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Phrases
Often appears in set expressions or collocations without variation.
The race ended and she finished in seventeenth place.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Use
Used to describe the order in a sequence; helpful in dates and positions.
Her birthday falls on the seventeenth of April.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Commonly used to refer to centuries and historical time frames.
I'm studying the political changes of the seventeenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Phrases
Often appears in set expressions or collocations without variation.
The race ended and she finished in seventeenth place.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Use
Used to describe the order in a sequence; helpful in dates and positions.
Her birthday falls on the seventeenth of April.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Commonly used to refer to centuries and historical time frames.
I'm studying the political changes of the seventeenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Phrases
Often appears in set expressions or collocations without variation.
The race ended and she finished in seventeenth place.
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Why should you read "Don...
in the seventeenth century. Even in the Americas, where the Church banned all novels for being sinful distractions, audiences were known to enjoy pirated editions. The book was so well received that readers clamored for more.
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Caroline Casey: Looking...
Not that we could have afforded I drive, but to give me the dream of driving. And on my seventeenth birthday, I accompanied my little sister in complete innocence, as I always had all my life --
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
the seventeenth century and it's it's that real-world infusion which gives the book as much of it sort of bottom and it's juice well I think that the social
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Why should you read "Don...
in the seventeenth century. Even in the Americas, where the Church banned all novels for being sinful distractions, audiences were known to enjoy pirated editions. The book was so well received that readers clamored for more.
Video examples
Caroline Casey: Looking...
Not that we could have afforded I drive, but to give me the dream of driving. And on my seventeenth birthday, I accompanied my little sister in complete innocence, as I always had all my life --
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
the seventeenth century and it's it's that real-world infusion which gives the book as much of it sort of bottom and it's juice well I think that the social
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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E. F. Schumacher
English Economist
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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Walter Dean Myers
American Writer
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
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Adrienne Mayor
American Historian
In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.
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Henry Bessemer
English Scientist
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
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Rick Moody
American Novelist
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
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Ivan Illich
American Sociologist
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.
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H. W. Brands
American Historian
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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David Hare
English Playwright
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
Quote examples
E. F. Schumacher
English Economist
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
Quote examples
Walter Dean Myers
American Writer
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Quote examples
Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
Quote examples
Adrienne Mayor
American Historian
In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.
Quote examples
Henry Bessemer
English Scientist
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
Quote examples
Rick Moody
American Novelist
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Quote examples
Ivan Illich
American Sociologist
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.
Quote examples
H. W. Brands
American Historian
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Quote examples
David Hare
English Playwright
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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