Associations to the word «Seventeenth»

Wiktionary

SEVENTEENTH, noun. (fractional) One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
SEVENTEENTH, noun. (music) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Dictionary definition

SEVENTEENTH, noun. Position 17 in a countable series of things.
SEVENTEENTH, adjective. Coming next after the sixteenth in position.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras