seventeen

[ sev-uhn-teen ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 17 or XVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 17 in number.
2. (initial capital letter, italics) a novel (1916) by Booth Tarkington.

seventeen

/ ˈsɛvənˈtiːn /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and seven and is a prime number See also number
2. a numeral, 17, XVII, etc, representing this number
3. the amount or quantity that is seven more than ten
4. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 17 units

determiner

1. 1. amounting to seventeen

      seventeen attempts

   2. ( as pronoun )

      seventeen were sold

Word History and Origins

Origin of seventeen¹

before 900; Middle English seventene, Old English seofontēne (cognate with Dutch zeventien, German siebzehn ). See seven, -teen

Word History and Origins

Origin of seventeen¹

Old English seofontīene

Example Sentences

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Gonzalez formed one half of the group Doble Filo.

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Seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne jumps into a half-frozen river to save his dog, Talia, and the 24-hour drama begins.

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Seventeen-year-old high school senior Julia Khoroshilov spent the past two weeks working for runway casting director Zan Casting.

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Thousand bucks a movie, seventeen informative minutes in length.

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In 1973, he was convicted on seventeen counts and sentenced to three years in federal prison.

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These words were uttered in a guarded whisper by a boy about seventeen years of age, to a great dog that stood by his side.

From Project Gutenberg

There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.

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"He 's getting well," thought Black Sheep, who knew the song through all its seventeen verses.

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The duty was seventeen millions and a half pounds raised one foot high for each bushel of coals.

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That first report enumerates twelve pumping-engines, probably all of them Watt engines, averaging a duty of seventeen millions.

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