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[ adjective ] coming next after the sixteenth in position

Synonyms

seventeenth

Used in print

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

On April 17 , 1610 , the sturdy little three masted bark , Discovery , weighed_anchor in St._Katherine's_Pool , London , and floated down the Thames toward_the_sea .

(87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)

The people of the 17_th District of New_York , and I as their Representative in Congress , take great pride in the New_York_Times as one of the great and authoritative newspapers of the world .

(U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)

Petitioner registered with Local_Board_No._9 , Boulder_,_Colorado , on March 17 , 1952 .

Its ground for this recommendation was that , while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17 , 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ) , that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching , the headquarters of the Jehovah's_Witnesses reported that he was no_longer doing so and , on_the_contrary , had relinquished both his Pioneer_and_Bible_Student_Servant positions .

Related terms

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