seventeenth

/'sevn'ti:nθ/

Thân thiện

She is celebrating her seventeenth birthday with a small cake.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Coming next after the sixteenth in position: Used to describe something that is number 17 in a sequence or order.

2. Noun:

   • Position 17 in a countable series of things: The rank or place identified as number seventeen.
   • One of seventeen equal parts: A fraction equal to one part of something divided into seventeen equal parts.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • This is the seventeenth time I have called you today. (This indicates the 17th instance in a sequence of calls.)
  • Her seventeenth birthday is next week. (This describes the birthday that is the 17th one since her birth.)

• Noun:

  • He finished in seventeenth place in the race. (This refers to the rank or position number 17.)
  • Approximately one seventeenth of the population was surveyed. (This uses "seventeenth" to mean 1/17th as a fraction.)

Advanced Usage

• "The seventeenth century": Refers to the years from 1601 to 1700 AD.

  • Baroque art flourished in the seventeenth century.

• "A seventeenth": Can be used informally to mean a very small part or fraction.

  • I only understood a seventeenth of what he was saying. (This emphasizes understanding a very small portion.)

Variants and Related Words

• Seventeen (Cardinal Number): The number 17.

  • There are seventeen students in the class.

• Seventeenthly (Adverb): Used to introduce the seventeenth point in a list (formal/archaic).

  • Seventeenthly, we must consider the long-term economic impact.

Synonyms

• 17th: The ordinal form, used identically.
  • The 17th of May is a national holiday.

Related Phrases

• Sweet seventeen: An idiom referring to the age of seventeen, often considered a pleasant or significant age.
  • She's celebrating her sweet seventeen this weekend.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. coming next after the sixteenth in position

Noun

1. position 17 in a countable series of things

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 17th