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 →

2) (fraction) One of 17 equal parts of a whole: 1/17. tree →

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 →
• We live on the seventeenth floor. tree →
• My cousin had her seventeenth birthday party. tree →
• One seventeenth of 34 is 2. tree →
• Write seventeenth as a number: 17th. tree →
• The seventeenth card in the pack was the queen. tree →
• Divide the cake into 17 parts; each is a seventeenth. tree →
• "Hurry up," said Edmund, as it fumbled clumsily with the seventeenth shoe. tree →

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.
• In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
• the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez;
• For the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seventeenth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.