Seventeen
(Sev"en*teen`), n.
1. The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
2. A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
Seventeenth
(Sev"en*teenth`) a. [From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteóða, seofonteogeða.]
1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up.
Gen.
vii. 11. 2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Seventeenth
(Sev"en*teenth`) n.
1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
3. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Seventh
(Sev"enth) a. [From Seven: cf. AS. seofoða.]
1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had made.
Gen. ii. 2. 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. — Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.
Seventh
(Sev"enth), n.
1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
3. (Mus.) (a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale. (b) A chord which includes
the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
Seven-thirties
(Sev`en-thir"ties) n. pl. A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury
notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven
and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or
funded.
Seventhly
(Sev"enth*ly) adv. In the seventh place.
Seventieth
(Sev"en*ti*eth) a. [AS. hund- seofontigoða.]
1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
Seventieth
(Sev"en*ti*eth), n.
