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seventeenth
1. num. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
2. n. (fractional) One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
A seventeeth of 340 is 20.
3. n. (music) An interval of two octaves and a third.

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In France, the seventeenth century is the period of classical literature.

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