17TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 17th mean? 

• 17TH (adjective)
  The adjective 17TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the sixteenth in position

  Familiarity information: 17TH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 17TH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the sixteenth in position

Synonyms:

17th; seventeenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

The Great Red Spot (GRS) has delighted and mystified since its discovery in the 17th Century.

(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)

Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at latest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A polyunsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and exactly 2 double bonds, originating from either the 6th and 9th or the 9th and 17th positions from the methyl end.

(Docosadienoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A monounsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and a single double bond originating from either the 3rd, 7th, 9th, 11th or 17th positions from the methyl end.

(Docosenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Double bonds for docosatrienoic acid can be originating from either the (3rd, 6th and 9th), the (5th, 11th and 17th), the (7th, 13th and 19th) or the (9th, 12th and 15th) positions from the methyl end.

(Docosatrienoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Once the nest was located, he wrote in his account of life on the eastern African coast in the 17th century, Ethiopia Oriental, the men harvested the honey and the bird fed on the wax.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the 17th century, Isaac Newton, through his observations on the splitting of light by a prism, sowed the seeds for a new field of science studying the interactions between light and matter – spectroscopy.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Having therefore provided himself with all things necessary for a long journey, and settled his affairs at home, he took leave of his wife, and upon the 17th of August, 1703, about two months after my arrival, we set out for the metropolis, situate near the middle of that empire, and about three thousand miles distance from our house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)