Definition of Seventeen

1. Adjective. Being one more than sixteen.

Exact synonyms: 17, Xvii
Similar to: Cardinal

2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one.
Exact synonyms: 17, Xvii
Generic synonyms: Large Integer

Definition of Seventeen

1. a. One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

2. n. The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.

Definition of Seventeen

1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17. ¹

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Definition of Seventeen

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventeen

sevenfoldness
sevenish
sevenless
sevenling
sevenness
sevennight
sevennights
sevenpence
sevenpences
sevenpenny
sevens
sevenscore
sevensies
sevensome
sevensomes
seventeen (current term)
seventeen-year locust
seventeen hundred
seventeenfold
seventeenish
seventeenness
seventeenpence
seventeens
seventeenth
seventeenths
seventh
seventh art
seventh chord
seventh chords
seventh cranial nerve

Literary usage of Seventeen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives by United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson, United States (1904)
"On Appropriations, to consist of seventeen members. On the Judiciary, to consist of seventeen members. On Banking and Currency, to consist of seventeen ..."

2. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"According to the recommendations of the " Committee of seventeen," the minimum requirements for a secondary school teacher should be " graduation from a ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He was an earnest student and when only seventeen won a scholarship in Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated there in 1604 and was ordained at Bangor, ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"THE seventeen-YEAR CICADA. — Seeing in the July number of the NATURALIST a request for twigs of oak which had been stung by the so- called seventeen-year ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"seventeen Casa of Parturition, in which Chloroform was inhaled with Injurious Effects.—The Medical Times and Gazette, Sept» 9, contains an account, ..."

6. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"Jeremiah Burnham, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. ..."

7. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1855)
"In 183G, seventeen years after the last date, they were also seen in the same place, but they appeared less plenty, as though they were run nmg out and ..."

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