The ordinal number matching the number 17; coming after sixteenth and before eighteenth in a sequence.
Compound of 'seven' and '-teen' (from Old English 'tene' meaning ten) plus the ordinal suffix '-th.' Built from the same roots as the number seventeen.
The 17th century (1600s) was absolutely wild: it saw the Scientific Revolution, the rise of global trade, and more political upheaval per decade than most centuries experience in their entirety!
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