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17th

17th is the abbreviation of seventeenth.

Meaning of seventeenth

Adjective

seventeenth (not comparable)

  1. The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
    • Mr. Edward Glasser maintains that this people existed from about the seventeenth century B.C., and that the Sabæans followed them in the occupancy of those regions.1913, Theodore Edward Dowling, chapter III, in Gaza: A City of many Battles, page 40

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Forms of 17th

alternative form17ᵗʰ

Questions about 17th

What is 17th the abbreviation of?
17th is the abbreviation of seventeenth.

Words near 17th in the dictionary

  1. 1760s
  2. 1770s
  3. 1780s
  4. 1790s
  5. 17q21.31 microdeletion syndrome
  6. 17th
  7. 17ᵗʰ
  8. 18
  9. 18 holes
  10. 18+
  11. 18-crown-6

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