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# seventeenth

«seventeenth» in Mova's school dictionary: **Coming next after the sixteenth in order; number 17 in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

ordinal number (seventeenth, 17th); noun (a seventeenth — a fraction)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Coming next after the sixteenth in order; number 17 in a line or list: the seventeenth runner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#m1)

2) (fraction) One of 17 equal parts of a whole: 1/17. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths ordinal numbers say position: first, second … seventeenth. Written short as 17th. As a fraction, one seventeenth is 1/17; five seventeenths is 5/17. In everyday life: «her seventeenth birthday», «the seventeenth floor». Phrases: «on the seventeenth floor», «one seventeenth», «seventeenth place».

### examples

- She came seventeenth out of 30 runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x1)
- We live on the seventeenth floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x2)
- My cousin had her seventeenth birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x3)
- One seventeenth of 34 is 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x4)
- Write seventeenth as a number: 17th. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x5)
- The seventeenth card in the pack was the queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x6)
- Divide the cake into 17 parts; each is a seventeenth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x7)
- "Hurry up," said Edmund, as it fumbled clumsily with the seventeenth shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/#x8)

### note

Spelling: seven-TEEN-TH. Short form: 17th (not 17st). As a fraction: a seventeenth = 1/17; plural seventeenths. Ordinal tells position, cardinal (seventeen) tells how many.

### In the corpora

- [And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.199/)
- [In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.488/)
- [the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.856/)
- [For the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.898/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seventeenth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeenth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.