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SEVENTEENTH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 17 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("seventeenth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Derivation:

seventeenth (coming next after the sixteenth in position)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the sixteenth in position

Synonyms:

17th; seventeenth

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

Derivation:

seventeenth (position 17 in a countable series of things)

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